On February 21, 2025, Beijing time, the DeepSeek AI team, focused on exploring Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), shared an exciting announcement on social media, officially kicking off their participation in the #OpenSourceWeek event. This small but ambitious tech team announced that starting next week, they will open source five code repositories to transparently share their research progress with the global developer community.
In a tweet published at 12:00 PM Beijing time on February 25, DeepSeek AI wrote in a lighthearted and sincere tone: “We are a small team at @deepseek_ai exploring AGI. Starting next week, we will open source five repositories to share our humble but genuine progress, maintaining complete transparency.” This post was titled “Day0: Warming up for #OpenSourceWeek!” marking the official launch of the event.
DeepSeek AI stated that these upcoming open-sourced repositories are the “humble cornerstones” of their online services, which have been thoroughly documented, deployed, and tested in production environments.
The team emphasized that as part of the open-source community, they firmly believe that every piece of shared code can harness collective strength and accelerate innovation in the field of artificial intelligence. They also promised to bring “daily unlocks” of surprises in the coming days to engage more developers.
Notably, DeepSeek AI specifically highlighted their “non-ivory tower” positioning in the tweet. The team prides itself on being “garage band-like” innovators, rejecting an aloof stance, and is committed to building a purely community-driven open ecosystem. They stated: “No ivory tower, only garage bands and community-driven innovation.” This open-source initiative not only demonstrates DeepSeek AI's commitment to transparency and collaboration but also injects new energy into the global open-source community.
With the official release of the open-source repositories next week and the gradual unveiling of daily unlocks, DeepSeek AI looks forward to collaborating with developers, researchers, and tech enthusiasts to drive breakthrough advancements in the AGI field. Let’s stay tuned to see how this small team will make waves in the world of open source.
