The short version
DeepSeek's chat app image-understanding mode for screenshots and photos.
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DeepSeek Vision
DeepSeek's chat app image-understanding mode for screenshots and photos.
At a glance:
First seen:2026-06-18
Last seen:2026-06-18
Times seen:1
Website:chat.deepseek.com
Why it caught our attention
Readers were clearly interested in the new multimodal capability and how cheaply it handled image analysis.
Where it surfaced on Hacker News
2026-06-18
Editorial paraphrase
Comments praised its screenshot understanding versus Claude and ChatGPT, and asked for missing speech features.
Original threadDeepSeek Introduces Vision