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 historical context from visual features. The whale once jokingly called "blind" has finally opened its eyes. More Than Just "Seeing and Describing" A common misconception is that multimodal capability means "feed an image to AI and have it describe it." If that were the case, plenty of models on the market could already do that six months ago. What DeepSeek has shipped this time runs much deeper.…