DeepSeek goes beyond “open weights” AI with plans for source code release
Last month, DeepSeek turned the AI world on its head with the release of a new, competitive simulated reasoning model that was free to download and use under an MIT license. Now, the company is preparing to make the underlying code behind that model more accessible, promising to release five open source repos starting next week.
In a social media post late Thursday, DeepSeek said the daily releases it is planning for its "Open Source Week" would provide visibility into "these humble building blocks in our online service [that] have been documented, deployed and battle-tested in production. As part of the open-source community, we believe that every line shared becomes collective momentum that accelerates the journey."
While DeepSeek has been very non-specific about just what kind of code it will be sharing, an accompanying GitHub page for "DeepSeek Open Infra" promises the coming releases will cover "code that moved our tiny moonshot forward" and share "our small-but-sincere progress with full transparency." The page also refers back to a 2024 paper detailing DeepSeek's training architecture and software stack.