Overview

• DeepSeek's R1 model, released under an MIT License, offers high performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
• Major Chinese tech companies, including Baidu and Tencent, have adopted open-source strategies in response to DeepSeek's success.
• Kai-Fu Lee, founder of 01.AI, describes open-source AI as the future, presenting a significant challenge to closed-source models like OpenAI's.
• DeepSeek's rise has been likened to an 'Android moment' for AI, enabling faster innovation and broader adoption globally.
• Despite DeepSeek's disruption, OpenAI's ChatGPT remains popular, with over 400 million weekly active users as of February 2025.