Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, wrote on LinkedIn that DeepSeek's success is indicative of changing tides in the AI sector to favor open-source technology.

LeCun wrote that DeepSeek has profited from some of Meta's own technology, i.e., its Llama models, and that the startup "came up with new ideas and built them on top of other people's work. Because their work is published and open source, everyone can profit from it. That is the power of open research and open source."

Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, told CNBC last week that DeepSeek's last AI model was "earth-shattering" and that its R1 release is even more powerful.