DeepSeek-OCR: How Vision Compression is Revolutionizing Long-Context Memory in AI

The Vision Compression Revolution: How DeepSeek-OCR Turns One Image into Tenfold Context “If one sentence equals a token, how many memories can an image hold?” — The DeepSeek Team 1. The Long-Context Problem: When Models Forget What They Just Read Every LLM user has faced this: You feed a large model thousands of words — a meeting transcript, a long PDF, or a research paper — and halfway through, it forgets what came first. Why? Because transformer-based LLMs suffer from quadratic scaling in attention complexity. Longer sequences mean exponential computation costs and faster “memory decay.” Humans, however, don’t work that …