DeepSeek Liang Wenfeng says no to china’s Big Tech and VC money
“founder is wealthy and committed enough to keep it lean in a Navy Seal-style for his pursuit of AGI”
- 160 employees (meanwhile openai 2000+)
“we are in the early stage of a revolution companies should focus on breakthroughs instead of monetization”
DeepSeek’s lack of focus on promoting its own mass-market product like OpenAI’s ChatGPT lead to:
>Apple, for example, chose Alibaba’s Qwen over DeepSeek to roll out AI functions on its iPhones in China later this year.
>Tencent saw its API sales multiply after it started to embrace DeepSeek’s open-sourced models
