On Tuesday, the software company Block announced the launch of Goose, an open-source AI agent that allows developers to customize the tool for different purposes and using different large language models.
The move comes just a week after the Chinese startup DeepSeek unveiled its R1 artificial intelligence model, a rival to U.S. leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic that boasted far lower development costs. While the launch continues to reverberate through the tech world, spurring the chipmaker Nvidia to lose $600 billion in market cap, one clear winner has emerged: open-source software like Goose. Where companies like OpenAI favor a closed model, DeepSeek makes its underlying code public, meaning other developers can use and modify it.
