Part 8/10:
Historically, the creation of frontier AI systems has required massive investments, often costing hundreds of millions of dollars, and is limited to a handful of large U.S.-based tech giants and government agencies. But V3.1 proves that smaller teams, countries, and individual developers can now build competitive large-scale models without prohibitive costs.
The Shift Toward Open-Source Frontier AI
Deepseek’s approach challenges the existing exclusivity associated with high-end AI technologies. The model’s size (~700GB) makes local deployment impractical for most, but cloud providers are already beginning to offer hosted versions, dropping yet another barrier.