Liang Wenfeng
CEO of DeepSeekWikipedia
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Nov 3, 2026
Tom DusterbergPANELIST
The U.S. allows both market entry and ability to charge higher prices than are available in the highly competitive domestic Chinese market.
Tom DusterbergPANELIST
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng was disciplined by authorities when he observed the truth and told potential funders that his firm did not have the financial strength to compete with the U.S. and he has had to scale back the expected returns from its IPO.
Tom DusterbergPANELIST
The Chinese economy, I would note, is already at record levels of debt, and the ability of the home team to support AI investments is questionable.
Tom DusterbergPANELIST
The stock and VC markets have proven unable to fill this gap.
Type III AudioNARRATOR
They are racing because we are racing.
Type III AudioNARRATOR
Yes, there are some true believer accelerationist wacko nutjobs out there, and one of them, Liang Wenfeng, seems to be running deep-seek, but this is a highly solvable problem for the CCP.
Type III AudioNARRATOR
Also, yes, going first can totally work.
Type III AudioNARRATOR
Quote Scott Alexander, OP.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
They are racing because we are racing.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Yes, there are some true believer accelerationist wacko nutjobs out there, and one of them, Liang Wenfeng, seems to be running deep-seek, but this is a highly solvable problem for the CCP.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Also, yes, going first can totally work.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Quote Scott Alexander, OP.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Yes, there are some true-believer accelerationist wacko nutjobs out there.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
And one of them, Liang Wenfeng, seems to be running deep-seek.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
But this is a highly solvable problem for the CCP.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Also, yes, going first can totally work.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
They are racing because we are racing.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Yes, there are some true believer accelerationist wacko nutjobs out there, and one of them, Liang Wenfeng, seems to be running deep-seek, but this is a highly solvable problem for the CCP.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Also, yes, going first can totally work.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Quote Scott Alexander, OP.
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AmberHOST
This would be a fundamental shift in who holds leverage over the lab and over the models it releases to the world.
AmberHOST
DeepSeek's founder, Liang Wenfeng, just debuted at number seven on the Hurun China Rich List with an estimated net worth of $41.7 billion.
AmberHOST
The geopolitical weight of this deal, if it closes, goes far beyond a venture round.
DanielHOST
Now let's cross to Europe, and a story that reframes the open source versus closed model debate.
Ryan FedasiukGUEST
Frankly, even today, as of recording in late fall 2026, I don't know how ZAI got away with the release of GLM 5.3. It's an incredibly capable model, really incredible cyber exploit capabilities.
Ryan FedasiukGUEST
And my position, as soon as Mythos came out, was basically like, I don't know how Liang Wenfeng or some of these other executives in China are going to reliably go to folks in the security apparatus in China and say, you know what, we want to release this tool and make it available to everybody.
Ryan FedasiukGUEST
You know, as soon as there's any kind of incident of misuse, as soon as any Chinese teen gets the wrong idea, you know, running his open class setup in Shenzhen and connecting it to an obliterated, you know, open await Chinese model that is capable of real damage, you're going to have a threat to social stability.
Ryan FedasiukGUEST
And so I've been writing a few commentary pieces and on the road making this case that basically I think we are starting to see already what I have been predicting for a few months, and that is a bifurcation in China's strategy.
PhilipHOST
Speaking of DeepSeek and their R1 model where you can see the thinking process...
PhilipHOST
Oh, and before I forget, I have just finished writing the mini-documentary on the origin story of that company and their mysterious founder, Liang Wenfeng.
PhilipHOST
You can now, and I'm realizing this is a very long sentence and I'm almost out of breath, you can now [chuckles] see the thought process behind Claude 3.7 as well.
PhilipHOST
In other words, like DeepSeek have allowed the thoughts of the model to go on behind the scenes before the final output is given to be shown to the user.
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