DeepSeek
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Overview
AI company founded in 2023 and backed by hedge fund High-Flyer, developing frontier open-weight large language models (DeepSeek-V and R series) in pursuit of AGI. Its Nature-published R1 work includes detailed frontier-safety and risk-evaluation disclosures, among the most substantive published by a Chinese lab.
Leadership
- Liang WenfengFounder & CEO
Website
https://www.deepseek.com/Connections
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Quoted in Voices
Open-Source AI
“I think we will open-source, and our strongest models will probably be open-sourced too. Because I can't see any benefit to closed-source — no inevitable advantage.”
Liang Wenfeng (梁文锋) · July 2026Read full quote →Open-Source AI
“Is the open-source model we release the same as the one we deploy ourselves? Yes, it's identical. We would never open-source a weaker model and then deploy a better one internally. They are the same.”
Liang Wenfeng (梁文锋) · July 2026Read full quote →Open-Source AI
“When dealing with the outside world, we are very willing to assist and help anyone — even our competitors, including Alibaba, Zhipu AI, and Moonshot — to do better. Because we don't lose anything by doing so. We're open-source to begin with.”
Liang Wenfeng (梁文锋) · July 2026Read full quote →Defining AGI
“The AGI roadmap is a six-step progression: language model → chain-of-thought (CoT) → agent → continual learning → self-iteration (singularity) → embodied intelligence. Agents require CoT, and CoT requires the previous steps — no step is wasted. The core logic of this roadmap is: you cannot skip steps.”
Liang Wenfeng (梁文锋) · July 2026Read full quote →