BlogWhy DeepSeek had to be open-source (and why it won't defeat OpenAI)By now, you’ve heard of DeepSeek. It’s the Chinese AI lab that trained R1, an open-source reasoning model as good as OpenAI’s o1, but trained on inferior hardware for a fraction of the price. ‍They achieved this with novel training methods that are more efficient than the ones OpenAI, Anthropic and other well-funded competitors use to train their proprietary models. But why would they open-source it? ‍On the surface, it goes ...