Opinion: DeepSeek solidifies open source AI as a strong competitor to centrally managed projects

Odaily Planet Daily News Ala Shaabana, co-founder of the OpenTensor Foundation, said that the release of DeepSeek, which costs only a fraction of the cost of the leading model to train, consolidates the position of open source AI as a serious challenge to centrally managed projects. He believes that DeepSeek questions the entire centralized AI model, which costs tens of billions of dollars to develop and train. "DeepSeek has built a truly high-performance model in a more open and collaborative way. It proves that factors such as efficiency, collective wisdom and innovation can actually be comparable to pure financial strength." Shaabana attributes the rapid development of open source AI and the narrowing of the gap with centralized systems to a procedural shift in academia, requiring researchers to include their code in papers before submitting them to academic journals for publication. He added that increased regulation of centralized systems, including possible geographic restrictions on data due to geopolitical tensions, may impose further burdens on centralized AI projects. The costs and regulatory burdens caused by increased regulation will widen the gap between centralized systems and open source systems, which are less susceptible to these restrictions. (Cointelegraph)