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Meta's chief AI scientist says DeepSeek's success shows that 'open source models are surpassing proprietary ones'
Katie Balevic,Lakshmi Varanasi
Updated Mon, January 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM GMT+8
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- DeepSeek, an open-source Chinese AI company, has riled Silicon Valley with its rapid rise.
- Meta's chief AI scientist said DeepSeek had benefited from the open-source community.
- Meta's AI program has remained open-source, while OpenAI has shifted to closed-source.
Silicon Valley was on edge this week after
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released its R1 model. In third-party benchmarks, it outperformed leading American AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic.
For Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, the biggest takeaway from DeepSeek's success wasn't the heightened threat posed by Chinese competition but the value of keeping
AI models open-source so that anyone can benefit.
It's not that China's AI is "surpassing the US," but rather that "open source models are surpassing proprietary ones," LeCun said in a post on Threads.