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After DeepSeek launched its image recognition feature, a user sent it a photo of its blue whale logo to argue about, and it mistakenly identified it as a big blue fat fish before realizing it was its own logo.
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50%
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Medium-term (~90 days)
Relevance
9/28/2026
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Valid until: 12/27/2026
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