Can we put a pause on the AI Cold War narrative? The true star in the DeepSeek disruption story is open source AI.

Mark Zuckerberg has long championed Meta Platforms Inc.’s open-source approach to artificial intelligence software — which lets other companies access and build on top of its technology — saying that having an American model as the underpinning of new products was key to ensuring US dominance over China in AI.

In the world of large language models (LLMs) there tend to be relatively few upsets ever since OpenAI barged onto the scene with its transformer-based GPT models a few years ago, yet now it seems