DeepSeek Engineer Says Open Source Is Worth the Safety Risk

DeepSeek engineer defends push for open-source AI smarter than humans

DeepSeek is committed to open-source artificial intelligence to accelerate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), even if it heightens safety risks, a company engineer says, defying growing safety concerns from the US and scrutiny in China over whether the strategy poses national security risks. Speaking on Tuesday on an AI panel at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, DeepSeek engineer Gao Xi said open-source developmen…

DeepSeek Engineer Says Open Source Is Worth the Safety Risk

DeepSeek is committed to open source artificial intelligence to speed up the arrival of AGI, even though releasing model weights may amplify the impact of safety problems, an engineer at the company said at a Chinese internet conference this week.

DeepSeek, Qwen and MiniMax Leads Debate Open-Source Model Risks on Shared Wuzhen Stage

Researchers from three of China's most widely used open-weight model developers, DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen team and MiniMax, shared a stage at the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit on November 3 to discuss why they release their models openly and how open models should be governed, The Paper reported. The session, titled the Wuzhen Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence, was moderated by Wang Jian, academician of the Chinese Academy of En…