For those interested, we’ve dug into the Deepseek family recently at the EU OSAI index: How Open is DeepSeek? | European Open Source AI Index
TL;DR: DeepSeek represents interesting technical developments, but it is at best “open weights”, not open source: crucial elements of the training process, pre-training data and instruction-tuning data remain behind closed doors. In our openness index, DeepSeek’s models end up somewhere in the middle of the pack: more open than some big name rivals, but too closed to enable serious auditing or scientific scrutiny. Read on for details.
The family is somewhat complex; here is our visual
