
Liang Wenfeng
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Sep 15, 2026
ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier
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59:19Jordan SchneiderHOST
I mean, you know, it would be...
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59:21Jordan SchneiderHOST
I, I would love to hear Liang Wenfeng's, you know, 2,000-word essay responding to his thoughts about pacing the frontier.
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59:28Jordan SchneiderHOST
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.
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59:50Jordan SchneiderHOST
So, um, I don't know.
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63:08Jordan SchneiderHOST
If you wanna be, if you wanna be a, um...
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63:10Jordan SchneiderHOST
if you wanna kind of like exist, um, as a, as a kind of clean atom, not, not touched with anything.
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63:18Jordan SchneiderHOST
But I, I think it is, um, telling that someone like Liang Wenfeng, who clearly has-
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63:24Jasmine SunGUEST
Hmm
ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier
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59:05Jordan SchneiderHOST
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.
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59:19Jordan SchneiderHOST
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.
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59:28Jordan SchneiderHOST
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.
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59:53Jordan SchneiderHOST
There was something in me that was like, let's read some great Chinese books over the past few months.
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63:04Jordan SchneiderHOST
The way you'd be outside of the system is like you go, you know, move to the Bay Area or something.
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63:10Jordan SchneiderHOST
If you want to kind of exist as a kind of clean atom, not touched with anything.
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63:18Jordan SchneiderHOST
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
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64:14Nathan LambertGUEST
yeah soon jazz will have more subscribers than us
Are the US and China in an AI Race? AGI vs. Diffusion, AI Risk, Bad Actors, the Case for Cooperation
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53:14Alvin Wang GraylinGUEST
Yeah.
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53:14Alvin Wang GraylinGUEST
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.
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53:26Alvin Wang GraylinGUEST
I need to have a certain amount of money from these IPOs so I can keep my staff.
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53:31Alvin Wang GraylinGUEST
Because the staff, the consistency and stability of the staff is the number one criteria to creating long-term technology innovation.
Meta ships Muse agent for email, payments, and travel
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1:24speaker_0HOST
That follows a funding round Reuters previously said would value DeepSeek at about five hundred billion yuan, roughly seventy-five billion dollars.
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1:33speaker_0HOST
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.
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1:48speaker_0HOST
Chinese peers Z.AI and MiniMax already listed in Hong Kong, while Moonshot has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO.
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1:57speaker_0HOST
Three more headlines.
“AI #184: Post Post Mortem” by Zvi
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41:54Type Three AudioNARRATOR
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.
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42:01Type Three AudioNARRATOR
The list is missing, among others, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Demis Hassabis and Liang Wenfeng.
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42:09Type Three AudioNARRATOR
I could go on, but need we say more? Quote Yursha Bark End quote.
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42:15Type Three AudioNARRATOR
Heading.
“AI #184: Post Post Mortem” by Zvi
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41:54Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
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.
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42:01Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
The list is missing, among others, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Demis Hassabis and Liang Wenfeng.
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42:09Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
I could go on, but need we say more? Quote Yursha Bark End quote.
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42:15Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Heading.
AI #184: Post Post Mortem
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46:07Zvi MowshowitzHOST
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.
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46:16Zvi MowshowitzHOST
The list is missing, among others, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Demis Hassabis, and Liang Wenfeng.
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46:22Zvi MowshowitzHOST
I could go on, but need we say more?
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46:28speaker_28SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's time that the AI industry compiles the 100 most influential people in news media list, starting with Joe Rogan, Mr.
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0:10Edo SegalHOST
DeepSeek avanza rápido en dos frentes esta hora.
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0:13Edo SegalHOST
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.
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0:29Edo SegalHOST
Entre los inversores que regresan están CATL y Tencent, y nuevos fondos vinculados al Estado están en conversaciones para sumarse.
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0:36Edo SegalHOST
Para la parte de los modelos en esta historia, le paso a Amber.
En la Hora — 12:00 AM · Tue Sep 1, 2026![[YOU] on AI · Ahora](https://particle.news/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,width=128/https://cdn.particle.pro/url/media/4e91d5b0-2117-58a6-bbc5-99f50507c704/4ba59d61cb1532c3192cbd071151c34c20f282a4cc8dbcff1e4711bdb0859bab)
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2:24DanielCORRESPONDENT
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.
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2:40DanielCORRESPONDENT
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.
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2:51DanielCORRESPONDENT
Una más, Edo.
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2:52Edo SegalHOST
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.
WE'RE BACK, Meta Addiction, Tim Cook's Last Day | Jordan Schneider, Robert Mendelsohn & Eric Olszewski, Billy Thalheimer, Aaron Cannon, Stephen Balaban
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74:58Jordan SchneiderGUEST
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.
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75:06Jordan SchneiderGUEST
Liang Wenfeng, right? He, super contrarian dude.
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75:12Jordan SchneiderGUEST
He was not public about it.
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75:15Jordan SchneiderGUEST
He was public about it.
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79:22John CooganHOST
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.
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79:49John CooganHOST
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?
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80:00Jordan SchneiderGUEST
Well, here's the interesting thing with Liang Wenfeng.
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80:03Jordan SchneiderGUEST
He's kind of like Demis and DeepMind.
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