DeepSeek says open sourcing decision motivated by need to innovate and build trust

A representative of the AI developer DeepSeek noted the company’s Chinese roots in identifying a need to build trust as one of the main reasons the company decided to make its AI model open-weight, in addition to a desire to hasten innovation.

“I think the main driver [was] accelerated research and development, and also … to build trust, because -- as a Chinese, little known R&D lab -- by making everything transparent, people can validate, that builds trust,” Karl Zhao,...