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deepseek-ai MIT (deepseek) out 21 months ago

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Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #196 in LLMs · score 89.3 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 10.2k · #504 of 619 tracked

Changed this week: 1 new quantized build on the Hub (4 in all).2026-10-24

Can I use it?MIT (deepseek)Permissivelicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?10.2kdownloads, 30 days#504 of 619 we track · below the median+3 likes, downloads −6% this week3,718 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 15 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Latest · 24 days ago

Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia

Janus is a single Go binary that runs .gguf models on your machine and exposes an OpenAI-compatible API.

  • The build script pins llama.cpp to version b11146 because internal struct layouts match that specific tag.
  • On Windows, Go cannot overwrite a running executable, requiring the process to be stopped in Task Manager before rebuilding.
github.com 2026-10-01 106 HN pts · 19 comments 774 words about the Janus family family

15 best of 15 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 13. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. DiscussionJanus Pro 1B running 100% locally in-browser on WebGPUold.reddit.com · 2025-01-28 · 214 HN pts
  2. PaperJanus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Data and Model Scalingarxiv.org · undated
  3. CodeJanus: Decoupling visual encoding for multimodal understanding and generationgithub.com · 2024-10-20 · 36 HN pts
  4. ArticleProject Janus: Now Open Sourcetechcommunity.microsoft.com · 2025-03-26 · 4 HN pts
  5. ArticleShow HN: DeepSeek Janus Pro 7B APIeachlabs.ai · 2025-01-28 · 6 HN pts
  6. ArticleJanus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding andraw.githubusercontent.com · undated
  7. ArticleJanus Pro 7B - Feature Releasejanuspro.dev · undated
  8. ArticleJanus Pro 7B | Railwailrailwail.com · undated
  9. ArticleDeepSeek's Janus-Pro model outperforms OpenAI's DALL ...neowin.net · undated
  10. ArticleJanus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Data and Model Scaling | Jaehun's Blogjaehun.me · 2025-07-06
  11. ArticleExploring The Architecture Of Janus Pro 7Bthe-next-tech.com · 2025-01-31
  12. ArticleDeepSeek Janus-Pro 7B: A Comprehensive Technical Analysis of the Multimodal Powerhouse | by Adithya Bandara | Mediumadithyabandara.medium.com · 2025-01-30
  13. ArticleJanus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Data and Model Scalingexa.ai · 2025-01-29

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

No API provider serves it, so its downloads are people running it themselves: 4 quantized builds and 74 Spaces.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware4quantized builds
  • Built on4537 fine-tunes · 8 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps74Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B ♥ 2,035 · VIDraft/Deepseek-Multimodal ♥ 118 · AP123/Janus-Pro-7b ♥ 109 · LLMhacker/DeepseekJanusPro-Image ♥ 63

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

Coverage peaked at launch and is still arriving

Teal is the weights (2025-01-26), amber triangles are 6 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

49 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

49 derivatives on the Hub, most of them fine-tunes

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

4 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)37 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)8 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)4 quantized37 fine-tunes8 adapters
4 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)37 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)8 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)4 quantized37 fine-tunes8 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

What the card says

2 cited sentences

Summary generated, cited

Janus-Pro-7B is an any-to-any multimodal model that unifies multimodal understanding and generation.[1][2] The architecture utilizes a single transformer to process decoupled visual encoding pathways.[3]

  1. pipeline tag
  2. “unifies multimodal understanding and generation”
  3. “utilizing a single, unified transformer architecture for …”

Generated 2026-10-07 15:04 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

1 use case

What it is good at 1 use case

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

14 fields

Listed in LLMs

Facts

Pipeline tagany-to-any
Librarytransformers
Model typemulti_modality
Dtypebfloat16
MoEno
PapersarXiv:2501.17811
LicenseMIT (deepseek) (mit)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

SGLang

Servability

SGLang: supported · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: deepseek-ai/Janus 49 derivatives on the Hub

finetune: 37quantized: 4adapter: 8

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

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Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
Franklin0/ReasonGen-R1-SFT finetune — 7.42B M apache-2.0 Franklin0 1 14.7k
FreedomIntelligence/Janus-4o-7B finetune — 7.42B M mit FreedomIntelligence 52 5.1k
Franklin0/ReasonGen-R1 finetune — 7.42B M apache-2.0 Franklin0 7 5k
wnma3mz/Janus-Pro-7B-4bit quantized -4bit 7.42B M mit wnma3mz 8 3.4k
CaraJ/T2I-R1 finetune — 7.42B M apache-2.0 CaraJ 5 1.7k
fibonacciai/Persian-llm-fibonacci-1-7b-chat.P1_0 adapter — — — mit fibonacciai 29 0
wnma3mz/Janus-Pro-7B-LM-4bit quantized -4bit 6.91B M mit wnma3mz 2 1.1k
wnma3mz/Janus-Pro-7B finetune — 7.42B M mit wnma3mz 0 926
wnma3mz/Janus-Pro-7B-LM finetune — 6.91B M mit wnma3mz 3 472
Zhare-AI/janus-pro-7b-webgpu quantized — — — mit Zhare-AI 2 396
ZYT0316/Janus-CXR-7B finetune — 7.42B M apache-2.0 ZYT0316 4 196
trancoso-cc/gibberish-detector finetune — 67.0M S mit trancoso-cc 0 243
MISHANM/deepseek-ai_janus-Pro-7B-fp16 finetune -fp16 7.42B M — MISHANM 2 3
MatiVexx/Roxi finetune — — — artistic-2.0 MatiVexx 2 0
zeromodels/janus_pro_7b finetune — — — mit zeromodels 0 88
Mubeiya/jarvis-janus-prompt-lora adapter — — — — Mubeiya 0 86
zghhui/Janus-Pro-7B-GCPO-HPS finetune — 7.42B M — zghhui 0 71
KonstantinosKK/Janus-Pro-7B-GCPO finetune — 7.42B M other KonstantinosKK 0 65
masterthor90/DarkDevil finetune — — — wtfpl masterthor90 1 0
Helen0811/test_repo finetune — — — apache-2.0 Helen0811 1 0
Kevein/MakeIdea finetune — — — cc-by-sa-4.0 Kevein 1 0
asats/thumbnail-vlm-janus-pro finetune — — — mit asats 1 0
Billyshears/Janus_pro_finetune finetune — 7.42B M — Billyshears 0 50
exdysa/Janus-Pro-7B-SAFETENSORS finetune — 7.42B M mit exdysa 0 44
ORI-Muchim/Janus-Pro-7B-Korean-LoRA adapter — — — mit ORI-Muchim 0 38
danyalmalik/Janus-Pro-7B-ONNX-WebGPU quantized — — — other danyalmalik 0 16
ErenMil/sofa finetune — — — openrail ErenMil 0 0
tulsikopoi/NepAI finetune — — — openrail tulsikopoi 0 0
Zeariaya/DeepSeek adapter — — — mit Zeariaya 0 0
GgDamn/Testees finetune — — — apache-2.0 GgDamn 0 0
elmasryamr/King finetune — — — afl-3.0 elmasryamr 0 0
jasongarrison/JesusBro adapter — — — apache-2.0 jasongarrison 0 0
Vito13/Death finetune — — — openrail Vito13 0 0
Ferhat591/Kumsal finetune — — — apache-2.0 Ferhat591 0 0
Smartph90/Activities finetune — — — apache-2.0 Smartph90 0 0
JacobLasher/pro adapter — — — mit JacobLasher 0 0
Vezel/Data finetune — — — mit Vezel 0 0
Mandeepmk/Try finetune — — — apache-2.0 Mandeepmk 0 0
vilho/gtyfr65 finetune — — — apache-2.0 vilho 0 0
komalkaur/aysha finetune — — — apache-2.0 komalkaur 0 0

Repository changelog

4 commits
changed in the last 7 daysOther: 2026-10-24all changes

Repository changelog 4 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-02-01 Update README.md 5c3eb3f
2025-01-27 Update README.md 45882ea
2025-01-27 upload ckpt 55acc6e
2025-01-26 initial commit 2493841

Articles and coverage

15 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official1

techcommunity.microsoft.com2025-03-26authorityabout the Janus familyHN 4 pts · 1 comments8,243 words
Microsoft open-sourced Project Janus on Feb 27, 2025, to optimize O-RAN networks with dynamic service models and real-time telemetry. The release includes the jbpf library and jrt-controller, enabling control at microsecond time scales and access to fine-grained L1 telemetry. Previously announced at MWC 2024, the framework supports anomaly detection, interference mitigation, and fast vRAN power savings.written, reviewed, cited
  • Project Janus enables adding new functionality to operational RAN deployments without causing service disruption.
  • The framework allows developers to exert control over RAN behavior at microsecond time scales.
  • Project Janus allows real-time dynamic access to L1 telemetry, letting the telemetry type be controlled based on future AI use cases.

Analysis8

github.com2026-10-01authorityHN front pageabout the Janus familyHN 106 pts · 19 comments774 words
Janus is a single Go binary that runs .gguf models on your machine and exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. It requires Go 1.25+ and supports local inference via Vulkan or CPU fallback without requiring Python, Docker, or Ollama. The build script pins llama.cpp b11146, and the server listens on port 8990 under an MIT license.written, reviewed, cited
  • The build script pins llama.cpp to version b11146 because internal struct layouts match that specific tag.
  • On Windows, Go cannot overwrite a running executable, requiring the process to be stopped in Task Manager before rebuilding.
  • The first reply often takes 10–60 seconds because the model is loading into VRAM during startup.
github.com2025-01-27authorityHN front pageabout the Janus familyHN 912 pts · 674 comments
arxiv.orgauthorityabout the Janus family5,209 words
Janus-Pro-7B achieved a score of 79.2 on the multimodal understanding benchmark MMBench, surpassing Janus (69.4) and MetaMorph (75.2). In the text-to-image instruction-following leaderboard GenEval, Janus-Pro-7B scores 0.80, outperforming Janus (0.61) and Stable Diffusion 3 Medium (0.74).generated, cited
github.com2024-10-20authorityabout the Janus familyHN 36 pts · 3 comments2,112 words
DeepSeek released Janus-Pro on January 27, 2025, as an advanced version of Janus that improves multimodal understanding and visual generation. The model incorporates optimized training strategies, expanded training data, and scaling to larger model sizes to achieve significant advancements. JanusFlow, released on November 13, 2024, introduces a minimalist architecture integrating autoregressive language models with rectified flow for image generation. All models support a sequence length of 4096 and are available on Hugging Face.written, reviewed, cited
  • A tokenizer configuration bug previously prevented classifier-free guidance from functioning properly, degrading visual generation quality.
  • The generation pipeline requires setting a classifier-free guidance weight of 5 to achieve the intended image synthesis results.
  • Engineers must set the image token count per image to 576 and the image size to 384 pixels during the generation process.
eachlabs.ai2025-01-28HN 6 pts · 2 comments
raw.githubusercontent.comabout the Janus family
januspro.dev
railwail.com114 words

Community1

old.reddit.com2025-01-28HN front pageabout the Janus familyHN 214 pts · 22 comments
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Papers

1 paper

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