bitcoin and DeepSeek share something in common: they are technologies that use open source code and collaborative development. They also share another trait, a controversial one: they are disruptive technologies that improve upon the preceding ones. They even surpass them when they are privatized by large technology companies or entities with access to almost infinite financing.

As far as DeepSeek is concerned, its language model can be run locally. That is, its open-source software is licensed by the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and can be downloaded, installed, and operated directly from user's computers or servers. Of course, DeepSeek is not the only generative AI system that uses open source (Stable Diffusion or Llama use it), although it is the most efficient.
In contrast, technologies like ChatGPT, the popular language model (LLM), are proprietary software. The predecessors of this model were open source, but the current one is software that relies entirely on OpenIA, the provider and company that designed it, to function properly.