United Kingdom, Feb. 21 -- DeepSeek has announced its plans to make the source code for its artificial intelligence (AI) model publicly available.

The Chinese software company said it will be open-sourcing five code repositories for its machine-learning software next week, with DeepSeek hoping for "pure garage-energy and community-driven innovation".

In a post to X (previously Twitter), the company wrote: "We're a tiny team @deepseek_ai exploring AGI. Starting next week, we'll be open-sourcing 5 repos, sharing our small but sincere progress with full transparency.

"These humble building blocks in our online service have been documented, deployed and battle-tested in production.

"As part of the open-source community, we believe that ev...