New Deepseek model drastically reduces resource usage by converting text and documents into images — 'vision-text compression' uses up to 20 times fewer tokens

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/new-deepseek-model-drastically-reduces-resource-usage-by-converting-text-and-documents-into-images-vision-text-compression-uses-up-to-20-times-fewer-tokens