Everyone from executives to taxi-drivers are talking about “Deepseek” during this 2025 spring festival in China- I first heard about the company only a month ago- when they first release their Deepseek-V3 model and Wenfeng’s 2 years of deep hide finally caught our attention haha.
The founder of this research company, Wenfeng Liang, has been focusing on AI since 2008 and it was not a surprise Deepseek is born under a bunch of billionaire hedge fund managers worshiping Jim Simons, not necessarily associated with some government institutes or venture capital hypes.
Wenfeng is a typical Guangdongese who deeply understand the meaning of “social capitalism” since China’s reforms from 1980s. He was purely domestically educated and have spent 16 years building High-Flyer quant funds before dive into this new AGI venture. Deepseek only recruit top talents adopting first-principle tackling research & technical problems with a open & dare-to-be-original mindset- not the shiny degrees or years of technical experience.
These talents have huge flexibilities within the company- as long as they have an idea- they could grab the available cards and other technical resources to start the experiments. It’s hard to imagine for people with stagnant stereotype for “China yesterday” to conceptualize it, just like most people would think “man is still superior than woman in tech/quant skills.
There’s no ladders or departments within the company- Deepseek mother company is purely a young weirdo research lab going against the whole East Asia cultural settings and pursuing to be the top 0.0001% company driven by passion, creativity and courage to participate the fundamental innovation globally. Purely self-funded and keeping a low-profile building-mode allows the founder to concentrate on the top goals of most cost-efficient and latest models, they are on their bliss way to actually democratize AI and truly benefits every single individual in the most affordable way.
The AI competition is not only technical but also cultural.
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