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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer framework to cut AI deployment costs

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has open-sourced its DeepInfer framework, designed to make AI models more efficient and cost-effective to deploy. The framework supports DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on Nvidia's SM100 Blackwell GPUs and Huawei's Ascend 950 chips. DeepSeek aims for 'total victory' against closed-source AI models, viewing the current landscape as a conflict between open and closed development. AI

IMPACT This open-source framework aims to reduce AI deployment costs and increase efficiency, potentially benefiting developers and organizations looking to utilize AI models more affordably.

RANK_REASON The release of an open-source inference framework is a tool release, not a frontier model release.

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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer framework to cut AI deployment costs

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Chong Ming Lee ·

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

    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…