Liang Wenfeng backs open source as a commercial strategy for AI
sebkrier · x · 2026-07-23
A post praising DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng highlights his views on open source, competition, and long-term AI economics.
- The quoted thread says open source may be commercially beneficial because AI could become large enough to matter at the level of a significant share of GDP.
- It argues companies should not release inferior open models while privately deploying better ones.
- It also says the company is not worried about others deploying its models and competing with it.
- Another quoted line says DeepSeek will always open-source its best model.
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