TL;DR

  • Jack Dorsey lauds the success of DeepSeek, aligning with his commitment to open-source philosophy.
  • DeepSeek has garnered attention for its cost-effective development approach, competing with established AI models like ChatGPT.
  • Despite geopolitical concerns, DeepSeek embodies a progressive open-source model in the tech landscape.

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is seemingly thrilled about DeepSeek’s open-source success, adding fresh layers to his long-standing belief in the open-source philosophy.

“Open-source everything,” Dorsey posted on X, so rebranded by Elon Musk away from the social media platform he co-founded.

Dorsey didn’t mention what he was referring to, but the comments come at a time when pretty much no body can talk about anything beside DeepSeek.

Open-source is a philosophy that Dorsey has consistently championed, so the comments aren’t a novelty or some one-off thing.

His ventures, such as Bluesky, aim to decentralize social networking, reflecting his commitment to open technologies.

Dorsey is also a vocal Bitcoin advocate, supporting it as open-source digital currency and even integrating it on platforms he has served as CEO for, such as Square.

DeepSeek’s model, drawing global attention for its cost-efficient development using Nvidia’s H800 chips, proudly stands as an open-source project.

The startup has accomplished this without access to cutting-edge chips reserved for AI, conflicting with Washington’s export controls. Yet its training costs have been surprisingly frugal — under $6 million.

DeepSeek’s impact isn’t just technological. It exemplifies how an open-source model can thrive, outperforming expensive, closed counterparts like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, now toppled from iPhone app charts.

But Dorsey isn’t the only one celebrating openness. Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun — whose company developed the Llama line of open-source models — earlier chimed in, emphasizing the importance of an open-source model setting new industry benchmarks.

Still, DeepSeek’s rapid influence has sparked concerns similar to other Chinese-owned platforms, like TikTok. Despite these worries, DeepSeek’s open-source ethos offers an alternative to geopolitical tensions surrounding data integrity and privacy, challenging notions of control cloaked in secrecy.

Perplexity, for example, has integrated DeepSeek models into its service, with the promise of only utilizing data centers present in the Western world.

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