Commoditization of AI
However the scrutiny surrounding DeepSeek shakes out, AI scientists broadly agree it marks a positive step for the industry.
Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, said that DeepSeek's success represented a victory for open-source AI models, not necessarily a win for China over the U.S. Meta is behind a popular open-source AI model called Llama.
"To people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think: 'China is surpassing the US in AI.' You are reading this wrong. The correct reading is: 'Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones'," he said in a post on LinkedIn.