Sachs, a Columbia University professor, specifically highlighted DeepSeek, a Chinese start-up, for developing an open-source language model.

He pointed out that this achievement democratizes AI access, moving it beyond the control of a few tech giants like Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI, making it “available to everyone” through an “extremely smart” open-source approach.

Sachs sees China emerging as a global hub for open-source AI, emphasizing that such technologies and ideas benefit multiple stakeholders worldwide as “non-rival goods,” meaning one’s use doesn’t limit its availability to others.

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