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Should powerful AI models like China's new DeepSeek be released as free, open-source software anyone can download?

The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek posted its powerful new V4.1 model to Hugging Face on October 17 under an open MIT license, letting anyone download, run, and modify it.

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Discussion (2)

JE_ThomasVoice #8Oct 18, 4:59 AM

Nothing is free. Sometimes the price is hidden.

dagmanVoice #1Oct 17, 10:53 PM

I don't think we have much say in this. We've gotta just deal with it.

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