Shaw, founder of ai16z: Open-source models such as DeepSeek will promote the large-scale popularity of AI applications

On January 27th, Shaw, founder of ai16z, commented on big models such as DeepSeek. He pointed out that the AI field is experiencing an open-source revolution, with major AI labs from Google, OpenAI, Claude to today's DeepSeek continuously achieving breakthroughs in benchmarks and capabilities.
In particular, Mr. Shaw emphasised that open-source models such as DeepSeek, which is moving towards being free, open-source and running at zero cost on home computers as AI models become commoditised, are a huge boon for the industry as they help developers scale AI applications to millions of users at low cost.