Not sure I understand how exactly open source plays a key role here in terms of project development.
Looking at https://github.com/deepseek-ai, those repos have a bunch of of contributors but unless I'm wrong I don't see any significant contributions. What am I missing?
One could argue that by Meta and other companies releasing open weights and detailed got us to where we are now with R1. Even if it wasn't your race car that crossed the line first, everyone can now get a copy.
This shows how effective open source and open development can be.
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