DeepSeek-OCR Open-Source AI Model Changes How AI Models Read and Process Plain Text
Oct 21, 2025 - 12:00

DeepSeek has unveiled DeepSeek-OCR, an open-source AI model that processes text by converting it into images using 2D mapping. This new “Context Optical Compression” approach allows large language models to handle longer documents with fewer tokens and improved accuracy. The method has drawn praise for its potential to simplify and speed up text reasoning.