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Liang Wenfeng

Liang Wenfeng

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Sep 15, 2026

Jordan SchneiderHOST
59:19
I mean, you know, it would be...
Jordan SchneiderHOST
59:21
I, I would love to hear Liang Wenfeng's, you know, 2,000-word essay responding to his thoughts about pacing the frontier.
Jordan SchneiderHOST
59:28
We're not gonna get that, um, because this is not the prerogative of, um, uh, CEOs or commentators or thinkers, um, to sort of really be like aggressive and thoughtful and provocative in public, um, when you're talking about things that are ultimately within the government's purview.
Jordan SchneiderHOST
59:50
So, um, I don't know.
Jordan SchneiderHOST
63:08
If you wanna be, if you wanna be a, um...
Jordan SchneiderHOST
63:10
if you wanna kind of like exist, um, as a, as a kind of clean atom, not, not touched with anything.
Jordan SchneiderHOST
63:18
But I, I think it is, um, telling that someone like Liang Wenfeng, who clearly has-
Jasmine SunGUEST
63:24
Hmm
Jordan SchneiderHOST
59:05
So much of what I consume for my day job in... covering this China stuff is not that because there are like constraints on how people write and they need to write within a system.
Jordan SchneiderHOST
59:19
I mean, you know, it would be, I would love to hear Liang Wenfeng's, you know, 2000 word essay responding to his thoughts about praising the frontier.
Jordan SchneiderHOST
59:28
We're not going to get that because this is not the prerogative of the CEOs or commentators or thinkers to sort of really be like aggressive and thoughtful and provocative and public when you're talking about things that are ultimately within the government's purview so I don't know.
Jordan SchneiderHOST
59:53
There was something in me that was like, let's read some great Chinese books over the past few months.
Jordan SchneiderHOST
63:04
The way you'd be outside of the system is like you go, you know, move to the Bay Area or something.
Jordan SchneiderHOST
63:10
If you want to kind of exist as a kind of clean atom, not touched with anything.
Jordan SchneiderHOST
63:18
But I think it is telling that someone like Liang Wenfeng, who clearly has this sort of um independence of thought that uh you know really just like shine you know is is the sort of like lu shuny like person who is not bullshitting you whenever he talks that um he at some level like understands that this is uh i don't know i don't know if it's like leading him to ruin or something but it it puts him on a different plane than a lot of the other um people who kind of have made peace in a more direct way with the role that they play with the state sorry that was much longer than i thought i was gonna go on that okay all right model talk let's do this again soon well i guess you know we had some excuses somebody got married jasmine had to become even more famous than she already was
Nathan LambertGUEST
64:14
yeah soon jazz will have more subscribers than us
Alvin Wang GraylinGUEST
53:14
Yeah.
Alvin Wang GraylinGUEST
53:14
And in fact, if you look at, they asked Liang Wenfeng, why did DeepSeek want to go public if it doesn't care about revenues, which he says he doesn't, is that he says, look, I need to have stock.
Alvin Wang GraylinGUEST
53:26
I need to have a certain amount of money from these IPOs so I can keep my staff.
Alvin Wang GraylinGUEST
53:31
Because the staff, the consistency and stability of the staff is the number one criteria to creating long-term technology innovation.
speaker_0HOST
1:24
That follows a funding round Reuters previously said would value DeepSeek at about five hundred billion yuan, roughly seventy-five billion dollars.
speaker_0HOST
1:33
In June, the startup raised about seven point four billion dollars at a post-money valuation above fifty billion, with founder Liang Wenfeng personally committing twenty billion yuan and Tencent plus CATL among the largest external shareholders.
speaker_0HOST
1:48
Chinese peers Z.AI and MiniMax already listed in Hong Kong, while Moonshot has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO.
speaker_0HOST
1:57
Three more headlines.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
41:54
In general, any list is allowed a few silly picks, or sizzle picks, so long as you have a lot of good picks and no big obvious misses.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
42:01
The list is missing, among others, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Demis Hassabis and Liang Wenfeng.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
42:09
I could go on, but need we say more? Quote Yursha Bark End quote.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
42:15
Heading.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
41:54
In general, any list is allowed a few silly picks, or sizzle picks, so long as you have a lot of good picks and no big obvious misses.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
42:01
The list is missing, among others, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Demis Hassabis and Liang Wenfeng.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
42:09
I could go on, but need we say more? Quote Yursha Bark End quote.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
42:15
Heading.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
46:07
In general, any list is allowed a few silly picks or sizzle picks, so long as you have a lot of good picks and no big obvious misses.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
46:16
The list is missing, among others, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Demis Hassabis, and Liang Wenfeng.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
46:22
I could go on, but need we say more?
speaker_28SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
46:28
It's time that the AI industry compiles the 100 most influential people in news media list, starting with Joe Rogan, Mr.
Edo SegalHOST
0:10
DeepSeek avanza rápido en dos frentes esta hora.
Edo SegalHOST
0:13
El laboratorio de Han Xu está a la carrera por cerrar una nueva ronda de financiación de siete punto cuatro mil millones de dólares a una valoración pre-money de setenta y cuatro mil millones, con los fondos destinados a aproximadamente un gigavatio de nueva capacidad de cómputo.
Edo SegalHOST
0:29
Entre los inversores que regresan están CATL y Tencent, y nuevos fondos vinculados al Estado están en conversaciones para sumarse.
Edo SegalHOST
0:36
Para la parte de los modelos en esta historia, le paso a Amber.
DanielCORRESPONDENT
2:24
Los fondos están destinados al desarrollo de modelos y a una importante expansión de capacidad de cómputo, y fuentes indican que la empresa ha contratado bancos para una posible salida a bolsa en 2027 en el Star Market de Shanghai.
DanielCORRESPONDENT
2:40
Sería su primera cotización pública y su primer capital externo significativo desde que el fundador Liang Wenfeng la financió a través de su fondo cuantitativo.
DanielCORRESPONDENT
2:51
Una más, Edo.
Edo SegalHOST
2:52
Y un detalle de la cadena de suministro que vale la pena mencionar: OpenAI ha adquirido silenciosamente decenas de miles de Mac Minis para entrenar a su próxima generación de agentes de uso en computadora, sistemas diseñados para operar dentro de entornos de escritorio del mismo modo en que lo haría un humano.
Jordan SchneiderGUEST
74:58
like the I mean what even can you be contrarian about like that's like here's the thing okay okay Coming back to AI.
Jordan SchneiderGUEST
75:06
Liang Wenfeng, right? He, super contrarian dude.
Jordan SchneiderGUEST
75:12
He was not public about it.
Jordan SchneiderGUEST
75:15
He was public about it.
John CooganHOST
79:22
His leaked transcript, it felt like there were a lot of interesting, thought-provoking ideas in there, some of which I agree with, but it also felt a little bit like the 2025 AI Lab Leader playbook that is now facing backlash, where he's talking about sort of sci-fi scenarios, jobs, and all these different mechanics that... run some risk.
John CooganHOST
79:49
Do you think that that has, do you think he's aware of the backlash in the United States to that type of rhetoric? Or do you think that he thinks that China is somehow resilient to it?
Jordan SchneiderGUEST
80:00
Well, here's the interesting thing with Liang Wenfeng.
Jordan SchneiderGUEST
80:03
He's kind of like Demis and DeepMind.

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