DeepSeek has made open-source cool again. The Chinese startup’s decision to use open-source frameworks to achieve sophisticated reasoning has shaken up the AI ecosystem: Since then, Baidu has made its ERNIE model open-source, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said he thinks his non-open source company may be on the “wrong side of history.”
There are now two distinct paradigms in the AI sector: the closed ecosystems promoted by giants like OpenAI and Microsoft, versus the open-source platforms championed by companies like Meta and Mistral.
