Block Launches Open-Source AI Agent Goose As Jack Dorsey Praises DeepSeek's Development Approach

With the success of DeepSeek, AI development could see a paradigm shift toward a more open-source approach—a trend that Block said is already in motion. “We want open by default to be a North Star”

On Tuesday, the software company Block announced the launch of Goose, an open-source AI agent that allows developers to customize the tool for different purposes and using different large language models.

The move comes just a week after the Chinese startup DeepSeek unveiled its R1 artificial intelligence model, a rival to U.S. leaders like OpenAI and An…