DeepSeek seeks ‘total victory’ over closed-source AI with new open-source tool

DeepSeek open-sources new tool to slash AI costs in ‘fight’ against closed-source rivals

Open-source DeepInfer framework designed to make AI models cheaper and more efficient to deploy, Chinese start-up says

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run AI models efficiently, as a senior researcher at the company described the growing divide between open-source and closed-source AI as a battle between “light and darkness”.

Inference refers to the serving and running of AI models, and frameworks such as DeepInfer help optimise that process.