DeepSeek’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models have lowered the cost of adopting the technology for Southeast Asia’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).That positive assessment reflects the worldwide attention gained by start-up DeepSeek over the past few weeks for releasing two advanced open-source AI models, V3 and R1, at a fraction of the cost and computing power that major tech companies typically require for large language model (LLM) projects. LLM is the technology underpinning generative AI services like ChatGPT and DeepSeek’s namesake chatbot. Open source gives public access to a software program’s source code, allowing third-party developers to modify or share its design, fix broken links or scale up its capabilities. Should we expect a very strong resistance from other Ai developers ?