What's the license?
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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a lot of the stuff is released under standard open source licenses
That's not helpful. Can you be specific?
Deepseek v3 is released under MIT https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3?tab=readme-ov-file
XiangShan is released under Mulan Permissive Software License https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan
Thanks. Yeah, those are both shit licenses
do elaborate
A company can take that work, fork it, modify it, sell it, and then lock up their modifications without being required to release then under an open source license.
Also doesn't protect anything hosted on a web server, like AGPL does
I prefer AGPL as well, however permissive license such as MIT are still open source. Meanwhile, the whole premise of the video is that collaboration in the open ultimately wins. The incentives align to favor open source in general. This is especially the case in China where such projects have government backing.
knowledge transfer ≠ open-source
It's both, the vid specifically discusses how open source tech was leveraged by Deepseek to leapfrog closed source models from US companies. Another example is the recent announcement of XiangShan CPU effort that aims to create high quality open source hardware.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: