Company intends to share its small but sincere progress with full transparency.
The Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has said it will be offering open source versions of its repositories this week.
Announcing on X, the self-declared “tiny team” said it will be open-sourcing five repositories, in order to share its “small but sincere progress with full transparency.”
It said: “These humble building blocks in our online service have been documented, deployed and battle-tested in production.
“As part of the open-source community, we believe that every line shared becomes collective momentum that accelerates the journey.”
Andrew Stiefel, senior product marketing manager at open source security company, Endor Labs, welcomed this move, saying it will make it easier for the community to audit their systems for security risks, and also for individuals and organisations to run their own versions of DeepSeek in production.
“From a transparency side, we’ll see how DeepSeek is running their hosted services. This will help address some of the security concerns that emerged after it was discovered they left some of their Clickhouse databases unsecured,” he said.
Good News
He also said this move is good news for the open-source AI community, as we will have some examples of how a model provider is hosting and running AI infrastructure at scale, likely with Docker/K8s and other infrastructure-as-code (IaC) configuration.
“This will make it easier for hobbyists, startups, and even existing companies to spin up their own hosted instances using DeepSeek or other open-source models.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
