Open source

Musk hits back at OpenAI’s claim he’s on quest to harm startup

Musk’s latest filing comes just days after OpenAI retreated from its plan to restructure as a for-profit business

By open-sourcing AI models, such as DeepSeek R1, Chinese tech groups create an ecosystem where global developers continuously improve their models – without shouldering all the development costs.

Why China is suddenly flooding the market with powerful AI models

The pace of Beijing’s open-source push has been relentless

Tencent’s five new 3D-content generators are built atop its Hunyuan3D-2.0 model, all of which it intends to open-source to users.

Tencent touts open-source AI models to turn text into 3D visuals

From OpenAI to Alibaba Group Holding, major industry players on both sides of the Pacific have rolled out AI model advancements at an astonishing pace

Deepseek will open source five code repositories next week, describing the move as “small but sincere progress” that it will share “with full transparency.”

DeepSeek to share some AI model code, doubling down on open source

CHINESE startup DeepSeek will make its models’ code publicly available, it said on Friday (Feb 21), doubling down on its commitment to open-source artificial intelligence.

DeepSeek-R1 was trained using only 2,788 GPUs, achieving a 96 per cent reduction in training costs compared with other leading AI models.
THE BROAD VIEW

AI’s open-source moment could be the turning point for its future

DeepSeek-R1 has demonstrated that high-performing AI models can be trained with significantly lower compute costs and supporting infrastructure

Keen to increase market share, Baidu announced on Thursday that it would make its AI chatbot Ernie Bot free starting April 1, about a year and a half after introducing premium versions.

China’s Baidu to make latest Ernie AI model open-source as competition heats up

CHINESE search engine giant Baidu said on Friday it would make its next-generation artificial intelligence model Ernie open-source from June 30, a major shift in strategy as competition heats up.

The author describes DeepSeek as a Monkey King, or Wukong, moment in the global AI landscape.

Open source and under control: The DeepSeek paradox

The true disruption in generative AI is not technical – it is philosophical

DeepSeek has garnered international attention with its latest models, shocking Silicon Valley and investors with their capabilities and efficiency.
THE BOTTOM LINE

DeepSeek’s breakthroughs are too big for the US to ban

The Chinese tech tools will likely get the TikTok treatment. But its open-source approach has already democratised AI. 

The open-source models, numbering more than 100, come from Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 family, its latest foundational large language model released in May.

Alibaba accelerates AI push by releasing new open-source models, text-to-video

CHINESE technology company Alibaba released on Thursday (Sep 19) new open-source artificial intelligence models and text-to-video AI technology, intensifying its efforts to compete in the booming area...

Microsoft is paying Inflection US$650 million in licensing fees in a deal designed to make investors whole.

The tech giants are eating the chatbot kings

Open-source AI firms are meanwhile offering a better alternative to Silicon Valley