OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” last week as the upstart faces greater rivalry from Google, threatening its ability to monetize its AI products and meet its ambitious revenue targets. Interesting that even Sam Altman is worried now! AFAIK there are also problems that Chinese companies have their own tool chain, and are releasing high level truly open source solutions for AI. Seems to me a problem could be that it is hard to make AI tie in, like is popular with much software and cloud services. But with AI you can use whatever tool is best value, and switch to the competition whenever you want.

I don‘t know of a single truly open source solutions for AI from China. China doesn‘t seem very keen on open source as a whole to be honest. That is unless they can monetize on open source projects from outside of China. Their companies love doing that.

DeepSeek the software is open source (MIT license).

Unless the dataset, weighting, and every aspect is open source, it’s not truly open source, as the OSI defines it.

Bullshit, the dataset is massive, and a dataset may include bias. You would always want to use a dataset that fir your needs.

no, your changing the definition of open source software. which has been around a lot longer than AI has. source code is what defines open source. what deepseek has is open weights. they publish the results of their learning only. not the source that produced it.

Still debatable, the weights are the code. That’s a bit like saying “X software is not open source because it has equations but it doesn’t include the proofs that they’re derived from”.