DeepSeek Just Made Closed AI Look Ridiculous
DeepSeek 4 Pro achieves near-frontier quality with MIT-licensed open weights, pressuring closed AI labs.
“DeepSeek has MIT licensed open weights. Anyone can run the exact same model at their own price.”
DeepSeek 4 Pro (0813) delivers near-frontier model quality through aggressive post-training distillation from 10+ specialist teacher models, all released under MIT license. Despite DeepSeek raising its own API prices 2.5-5x, the open weights enable third-party hosts to compete on price, maintaining cheap access. The result is sustained pressure on closed-model frontier labs to ship better models faster.