DEEPSEEK: THE QUIET GIANT LEADING CHINA'S AI RACE

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Deepseek's latest R1 model beat OpenAI's o1 on multiple reasoning benchmarks. The Chinese AI lab is fully funded and has no plans to fundraise. It is focused on building foundational technology rather than commercial applications and has committed to open-sourcing all of its models. This article contains an in-depth interview with Deepseek's CEO Liang Wenfeng, which covers Deepseek's ambitions for AGI, why the AI Lab views open source as the dominant strategy, how Deepseek hires and organizes researchers, why Chinese firms settle for copying and commercialization instead of 'hardcore innovation', and how Deepseek plans to ignite more 'hardcore innovation' across the Chinese economy.