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This timing is highly strategic and mirrors China's broader policies favoring open-source AI. As part of their 2020 14th Five-Year Plan, China aimed to accelerate AI adoption through open models, sacrificing short-term profits for widespread dissemination. The success of V3.1 validates this approach and sparks a global reshaping of AI development paradigms.
Disrupting the Industry and Democratizing AI R&D
Deepseek’s open model has already catalyzed a surge in community activities. The official Deepseek forums and Hugging Face’s trending lists now feature V3.1 prominently, with over 80,000 members mobilizing around this transformative model.