I don't know if that compares to an AI model, where the most significant portions are the data preparation and training. The code DeepSeek released only demonstrates how to use the given weights for inferencing with Torch/Triton. I wouldn't consider that an open-source model, just wrapper code for publicly available weights.

I think a closer comparison would be Android and GApps, where if you remove the latter, most would deem the phone unusable.