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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by maxloh on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:42AM (#50165480)
> ...open sourcing everything will help growing their economy (as a whole).

Most Chinese models are no longer open source. Qwen, MinMax, and GLM are transitioning to weights-available models, leaving only Xiaomi and DeepSeek in the open-source space.

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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by EMIRELADERO on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:03AM (#50166641)
It doesn't matter anyway. Weights aren't IP so the licenses are bunk.
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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by clcaev on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:35PM (#50168971)
> Weights aren't IP so the licenses are bunk.

This is not yet a given, I expect rule-making or copyright law expansion if courts rule otherwise.

Things also change. In the 80s lawyers carefully suggested white pages phone listings came under copyright but "sweat of the brow" was rejected by US supreme court in Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991)

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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by droidjj on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:39PM (#50169043)
I assume weights can also be IP in the form of trade secrets.
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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by aand16 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:28PM (#50173573)
Wouldn't that be the processing of obtaining the weights, and not the weights themselves?
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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by redanddead on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:29PM (#50172208)
Why is that btw?
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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by itkovian_ on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:45PM (#50172425)
Because if you don’t open weight you can dictate pricing as you’re the only party that can serve the model. Also attracts users to your platform rather than inf providers.
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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by sva_ on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:35PM (#50173630)
AFAIK, there's no evidence that Alibaba won't keep releasing more open source models. Before 3.8 there was speculation they wouldn't release the weights, but they finally did - Although I guess the largest model wasn't multi modal.

And Minmax is set to release their latest flash model on October 23rd.

So not sure where you're getting this from, unless I misunderstood something

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