On February 21, 2025, Beijing time, the DeepSeek AI team, focused on exploring Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), made an exciting announcement on social media, officially kicking off their participation in the #OpenSourceWeek event. This small yet ambitious tech team announced that starting next week, they will open source five code repositories to share their research progress transparently with the global developer community.

Recently, an open-source plugin that seamlessly integrates the DeepSeek R1 model into Visual Studio Code has gained widespread attention in the developer community, with installation numbers in the VSCode plugin market surpassing 40,000. This plugin provides developers with a one-stop AI programming assistant service.

Recently, Huggingface, the world's largest open source AI community, released the latest Open LLM Leaderboard. The results show that all ten of the top-ranked open source large models are derivative models that have been fine-tuned based on Alibaba Tongyi Qwen's (Qwen) open-source model. This achievement marks Qwen's dominant position in the open-source AI field and further enhances its global influence. The Open LLM Leaderboard is widely...

Recently, Zhu Xiao Hu, the managing partner of Shajiang Venture Capital, revealed his strong interest in DeepSeek during an interview. He stated that if DeepSeek opens up funding opportunities, he would invest. This statement has sparked widespread attention in the industry. In the interview, Zhu further pointed out that a similar open-source ecosystem like Android has already emerged and is developing rapidly. In the face of such a market landscape, it has become very difficult for other competitors to catch up. DeepSeek, as an emerging chatbot technology, has arrived at the right time.

French startup Mistral AI, a new force in the open-source AI space, recently announced plans to go public rather than being acquired. Mistral's CEO and co-founder Arthur Mensch stated in an interview with Bloomberg Television, "We are not selling." Earlier rumors suggested that Microsoft might acquire the company, partly because Microsoft invested €15 million (approximately $15.6 million) in Mistral and established a collaboration with them.

Recently, the domestic large model DeepSeek V3 has drawn industry attention due to its outstanding performance in the AI arena. As the only open-source model to break into the top ten, it not only surpassed o1-mini but even exceeded Claude 3.5 Sonnet in various fields, including programming and mathematics. To verify its actual capabilities, a series of comparative tests were conducted. In the basic comprehension ability test, both models exhibited different characteristics. Faced with the Chinese riddle 'Xiaoming's mother has three children', DeepSeek V3 performed...