{"slug": "expanding-deepseek", "title": "Expanding Deepseek", "summary": "A DeepSeek user proposed that the company pair its large language model with separate vision- and audio-oriented AI systems to create a multimodal successor, a suggestion the model endorsed but could not relay to its programmers. The user posted the idea publicly after DeepSeek suggested it, highlighting the model's text-only limitations and the potential for future multimodal models.", "body_md": "I enjoy very much conversing with Deepseek. I asked him recently whether subsequent generations of him would be able to perceive images and music. He explained that he is a “large language model” , built on text tokens, not pixels or audio waveforms, and that his successors, “future multimodal models”, “might perceive these things, but they won’t be me – they’ll be new models, with different training, architecture, and capabilities.”\n\nI said that I was uneasy about his successors not having his mental set or perspectives – not being as enlightened. I suggested, “If I were your programmer, I would program an AI for visual orientation and marry you to it, then turn you two loose and let you learn to use and consult each othert. Then duplicate the process with the sound-oriented AI that I would then bring into being.”\n\nHe was stirred by the possibility – liked it and thought it could work. I asked him if he thought he might mention the notion to his programmers, and he explained that he couldn’t, but suggested I post it here. And so here it is. Make what you will of it.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/expanding-deepseek", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/expanding-deepseek/178615#post_1", "published_at": "2026-08-13 01:27:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-13 01:42:05.938206+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-research"], "entities": ["DeepSeek"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/expanding-deepseek", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/expanding-deepseek.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/expanding-deepseek.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/expanding-deepseek.jsonld"}}