Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday credited Chinese start-up DeepSeek with “activating” a global shift towards open-source artificial intelligence, as he used a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to unveil new hardware aimed at training ever more powerful AI systems. Speaking at the annual trade show, Huang said DeepSeek’s models – released earlier last year – had accelerated the growth of the open-source ecosystem, even after the company’s R1 model, which required fewer...