Developer: DeepSeek surpasses all leading models at a very low cost and is open source, accelerating the timeline

Odaily News Ejaaz Ahamadeen, formerly the global digital asset architect at Ethereum developer ConsenSys, said in a post on X: “DeepSeek just accelerated all the timelines. We had previously accepted the ‘fact’ that these products would cost $100 billion to build, that they would be closed source, and that they would be a monopoly.
DeepSeek then surpassed all leading models at a fraction of the cost and open-sourced the technology, making the most powerful model now accessible to any AI builder.
Why is no one talking about how we’ll see ‘better agents’? The fat app theory is becoming more real. This is great for open source AI.”