Meta’s chief AI scientist says DeepSeek’s success shows that “open source models are surpassing proprietary ones”

• DeepSeek, an open-source Chinese AI company, has riled Silicon Valley with its rapid rise.
• Meta’s chief AI scientist said DeepSeek has benefited from the open-source community.
• Meta’s AI program has remained open-source, while OpenAI has shifted to closed-source.

Silicon Valley was on edge this week after DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released its R1 model. In third-party benchmarks, it outperformed leading American AI companies like OpenAI, Meta, and…