Speculations about DeepSeek-OCR and Quantization

Recently, DeepSeek released a new model and paper , titled DeepSeek-OCR. I've seen a bunch of people talk about it recently, and it's pretty cool stuff. I love the idea of using images to compress text. As Andrej points out , the tokenizer is kind of ugly, and it would be cool to have a more natural system. Intuitively, it makes sense that a more optimal way to parse written letters/characters…