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

DeepSeek on Tuesday fully open-sourced DeepInfer, an internally developed inference framework tailored to run its DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model on both Nvidia's SM100 Blackwell GPUs and Huawei hardware, according to the company. A senior DeepSeek researcher framed the growing open-source versus closed-source AI divide as a battle between "light and darkness" and described the release as seeking "total victory" over closed-source AI.

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”. The company on Tuesday released DeepInfer, an inference framework tailored to support its DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model on both Nvidia’s SM100 Blackwell graphics processing units GPUs and Huawei...