VentureBeat January 29, 2025
If it wasn’t clear before, it’s definitely very clear now: Open source really does matter for AI. The success of DeepSeek-R1 has substantively proven there is a need and demand for open-source AI.
But what exactly is open-source AI? For Meta and its Llama models, it means free access to use the model, with some conditions. DeepSeek is available under a permissive open-source license providing significant access to its architecture and capabilities. However, the specific training code and detailed methodologies, particularly those involving reinforcement learning (RL) techniques like Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), have not been publicly disclosed. This omission limits the community’s ability to fully understand and replicate the model’s training process.
What neither DeepSeek nor Llama enables, however,...
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