DeepSeek on Why It Open-Sources: 'Our Rival Is Time, Not Other AI Firms'
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-11-04
At the 2026 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, DeepSeek lead Gao Xi explained the company's commitment to open source: simply to reach AGI faster, with time—not rival AI firms—as the real competitor. Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai said only open source can popularize AI, noting Qwen has open-sourced over 470 models with 4 billion downloads and 330,000 derivative models.
Other highlights:
- DeepSeek V5 on Ascend: Supply-chain sources say the next model plans pretraining on Huawei Ascend chips, previously used mainly for inference.
- ChatGPT search at 20% of Google: OpenAI consumer product lead Adam Fry said ChatGPT handles 20% of Google's search query volume, though it remains far from overtaking.
- Doubao Work: Simple daily Q&A is now free for individual users.
- Hongguo overtakes Doubao: QuestMobile puts Hongguo at 430M deduplicated users versus Doubao's 419M.
- Salesforce buys Cresta for $2.7B: Continuing its AI customer-service acquisition spree after buying Fin for $3.6B.
- Also: Baidu denies Kunlunxin IPO delay; Yao Shunyu denies startup; ZTE denies phone business sale; DeepSeek service restored after at least 10 major outages this year; Tesla robotaxi operates in 8 US cities.
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