DeepSeek Forces Visual Reasoning Through Points and Boxes

DeepSeek has released an open-source visual reasoning framework called Thinking with Visual Primitives . According to 36Kr, the system changes how a multimodal model is asked to reason: instead of describing an image in loose language, it has to work through explicit visual units like point coordinates and bounding boxes . That is a much more concrete bet than “better multimodal understanding.” It pushes reasoning closer to measurement. When a model says “the object is near the left side,” langu