DeepSeek open-sources new tool to slash AI costs in 'fight' against closed-source rivals

South China Morning Post (Asia) reports: Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed.

DeepSeek open-sources new tool to slash AI costs in ‘fight’ against closed-source rivals
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AI⏱ 1 min read · Source: South China Morning Post (Asia)

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • As DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is an open-weight model – allowing third-party cloud providers to serve it on their own infrastructure – open-sourcing DeepInfer would “help the community…
  • In a technical article published on Chinese question-and-answer platform Zhihu on Tuesday, DeepSeek suggested that a single computing cluster running its V4.1-Flash model on…
  • In a social media post on Tuesday, Chen described open-source and closed-source AI as representing two fundamentally different futures for humanity – in some of the strongest…

South China Morning Post (Asia) reports: Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run AI models efficiently, as a senior researcher at the company described the growing divide between open-source and closed-source AI as a battle between “light and darkness”. The company on Tuesday released DeepInfer, an inference framework tailored to support its DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model on both Nvidia’s SM100 Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) and Huawei Technologies’ Ascend 950 chips.

Key Points

DeepSeek open-sources new tool to slash AI costs in ‘fight’ against closed-source rivals — detail
Image: South China Morning Post (Asia)
  • As DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is an open-weight model – allowing third-party cloud providers to serve it on their own infrastructure – open-sourcing DeepInfer would “help the community…
  • In a technical article published on Chinese question-and-answer platform Zhihu on Tuesday, DeepSeek suggested that a single computing cluster running its V4.1-Flash model on…
  • In a social media post on Tuesday, Chen described open-source and closed-source AI as representing two fundamentally different futures for humanity – in some of the strongest…

The Details

Released in September, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash introduced a new architecture that reduced the memory required to run the model while outperforming the company’s earlier V1 Pro model. Chen’s remarks and DeepSeek’s announcement come as Chinese AI companies continue to roll out more open-weight model upgrades, challenging the dominance of leading American rivals such as Anthropic and OpenAI, which have championed closed-source AI.

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