DeepSeek said it would double down on open-source technology with a fresh commitment to make five of its code repositories public, as the Chinese start-up continues to draw worldwide attention amid intense US-China competition in artificial intelligence (AI).
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The Hangzhou-based start-up said in a post to X on Friday that from next week, its “tiny team” exploring artificial general intelligence will “be open-sourcing five repos, sharing our small but sincere progress with full transparency”.
A code repository is a storage location where developers can see and contribute to software development. Open-source repositories are typically published to popular centralised hosting services like Microsoft’s GitHub.
Code repositories can contain key company assets, but the open-source nature of DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 models, making them free for anyone to use and modify, has been critical to the start-up’s meteoric rise in recent months.
“As part of the open-source community, we believe that every line shared becomes collective momentum that accelerates the journey,” the company wrote.
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“Daily unlocks are coming soon,” it added. “No ivory towers – just pure garage-energy and community-driven innovation.”