DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer Inference Engine, Targeting Lower AI Deployment Costs

DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, its proprietary inference optimization framework designed to reduce throughput bottlenecks and latency in large-scale AI model serving. The Chinese company released the framework under the Apache 2.0 license on October 20, 2026, positioning it as a tool for enterprises and developers seeking to lower hardware utilization costs and energy consumption when running inference at scale.