DeepSeek Finally "Opens Its Eyes": Multimodal Image Recognition Goes Live, the Last Missing Piece for Chinese LLMs

On April 29, 2026, DeepSeek officially launched the gray-scale testing of its "Image Recognition Mode." For users who've been relying on the pure-text version of DeepSeek for the past year, this news is akin to a blind person regaining sight. From now on, when you upload a photo to DeepSeek, it no longer just "sees a file name" — it genuinely understands image content. It can identify the stylistic period of an artifact, interpret complex charts, analyze food ingredients, and even infer historic