Open source software makes AI harder to hack
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By releasing their secret code to the public, developers are using a global community of hackers to find and fix security flaws faster than any private company could.
When the DeepSeek AI model was released, it achieved near-parity with the world’s most advanced systems while using a fraction of the computing power. It employs a 'mixture-of-experts' architecture, where only 8 out of 128 specialized sub-programs are active at any moment. This clever routing drops the cost of generating text to just one penny per million tokens.