Liang Wenfeng of DeepSeek on Open Source: Only Make 6 Times Profit, No Overtime; Want to Make 100 Times, Then You Will Be Constrained by Open Source
DeepSeek's investor meeting leak: Liang Wenfeng explains open-source rationale. He pledges to open-source the strongest models, seeing no inherent advantage in closed-source. Financially, a 10-month payback yields ~6x profit—open-source won't hurt this, but caps 100x excess profit. Thus, at 6x profit, open-source doesn't disrupt the business model.....