DeepSeek's image understanding mode is now live on app and web

DeepSeek 识图模式正式上线 App 和网页端

DeepSeek's image understanding mode went live today on its app and web client, announced by researcher Xiaokang Chen. The mode sits alongside Quick and Expert modes and lets the model interpret visual content beyond simple text extraction. ITHome testing found the app still shows an 'image understanding in beta' notice, while the web version does not. In April, DeepSeek disclosed the underlying multimodal framework 'Thinking with Visual Primitives,' but the post doesn't specify which model powers this mode, whether it's free, or any resolution/file-size limits.

Why it matters: DeepSeek shipping image understanding as a formal mode is a meaningful product milestone — it closes the multimodal input gap with a published framework behind it. The ITHome test note that the app still shows a beta label tempers the score slightly; the rollout isn't fully cl...