Another interesting article in the NYT today. Meta, Facebook's parent, views the development and public release of DeepSeek as a positive, and a vindication of a strategic decision it made a couple of years ago to make its AI technology open source:
...Meta executives believe DeepSeek's breakthrough shows that upstarts now have a chance to innovate and compete with the tech giants that have mostly had the A.I. playing field to themselves because A.I. costs so much to build. It was something Meta executives hoped would happen when they gave away their own technology.
"Our open source strategy was validated," said Ragavan Srinivasan, a Meta vice president, in an interview on Tuesday. "The more people who have access to the technology needed to move things forward faster, the better...."
...Yann LeCun, an early A.I. pioneer who is Meta's chief A.I. scientist, said in a post on LinkedIn that people who think the takeaway from DeepMind's work should be that China is beating the United States at A.I. development are misreading the situation. "The correct reading is: 'Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones,'" he said.
Dr. LeCun added that "because their work is published and open source, everyone can profit from it. That is the power of open research."...
DeepSeek Shows Meta's A.I. Strategy Is Working - The New York Times
...Meta executives believe DeepSeek's breakthrough shows that upstarts now have a chance to innovate and compete with the tech giants that have mostly had the A.I. playing field to themselves because A.I. costs so much to build. It was something Meta executives hoped would happen when they gave away their own technology.
"Our open source strategy was validated," said Ragavan Srinivasan, a Meta vice president, in an interview on Tuesday. "The more people who have access to the technology needed to move things forward faster, the better...."
...Yann LeCun, an early A.I. pioneer who is Meta's chief A.I. scientist, said in a post on LinkedIn that people who think the takeaway from DeepMind's work should be that China is beating the United States at A.I. development are misreading the situation. "The correct reading is: 'Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones,'" he said.
Dr. LeCun added that "because their work is published and open source, everyone can profit from it. That is the power of open research."...
DeepSeek Shows Meta's A.I. Strategy Is Working - The New York Times
