"Open source always wins in the tech industry," said Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean, which makes an AI-powered search engine for enterprises. "You cannot beat the momentum that a successful open-source project is able to actually generate."
OpenAI itself has walked back its closed-source strategy in the wake of DeepSeek's accomplishment.
"Personally I think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open-source strategy," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a post on Reddit on Jan. 31.