{
  "id": 15850481,
  "title": "DeepSeek seeks ‘total victory’ over closed-source AI with new open-source tool",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/deepseek-seeks-total-victory-over-closed-source-ai-with-new-open",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-21T05:03:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Business",
    "slug": "scmp-business",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3371592/deepseek-open-sources-new-tool-slash-ai-costs-fight-against-closed-source-rivals"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has unveiled its latest open-source tool, DeepInfer, a framework designed to optimize the performance of its DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model. The company released DeepInfer on Tuesday, detailing its ability to run the model efficiently on both Nvidia's SM100 Blackwell GPUs and Huawei's Ascend 950 chips. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, launched in September, boasts a new architecture that reduces memory requirements while outperforming its predecessor, V1 Pro, and has been recognized as one of the world's most powerful and cost-efficient open-weight models. By open-sourcing DeepInfer, DeepSeek aims to lower compute costs, reduce energy usage, and make AI more affordable for third-party cloud providers. In a recent statement, DeepSeek compared open-source and closed-source AI to a battle between \"light and darkness,\" emphasizing its commitment to defeating closed-source systems for the betterment of humanity.",
  "summary": "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 and darkness”. The company on Tuesday released DeepInfer, an inference framework tailored to support its…",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "DeepSeek open-sources new tool to slash AI costs in ‘fight’ against closed-source rivals",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/deepseek-open-sources-new-tool-to-slash-ai-costs-in-fight-against",
        "published": "2026-10-21T05:03:27.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}