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Apr 30, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How DeepSeek’s Visual‑Primitive Paradigm Redefines Multimodal Reasoning

DeepSeek has released a multimodal model built on a visual‑primitive reasoning paradigm that treats coordinates and bounding boxes as reasoning units, dramatically compresses visual tokens, and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on counting, spatial, and topological tasks, while exposing current limits of multimodal inference.