“OpenAI is Not God”: DeepSeek, Liang Wenfeng and the R1 Phenomenon
Added 2025-04-03 22:27:01 +0000 UTCThe documentary revealing just how much the world got wrong about DeepSeek, what motivates the man behind the company, and what's next.
Incredible Editing: Hassan Iq.
Sources:
Liang Wenfeng 2023 Interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20241228030725/https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-from-hedge-fund-to-frontier
Liang Wenfeng 2024 Interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20241227111244/https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-chinas
Hide from Crowds: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/who-is-behind-deepseek-and-how-did-it-achieve-its-ai-sputnik-moment
Fled the Province: https://www.ft.com/content/d23a01d8-4256-4142-a52c-a393ed6df1bc
DeepSeek V3 Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19437
DeepSeek R1 Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12948
Chat: https://chat.deepseek.com/
DeepSeek V1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.02954
DeepSeek Coder: https://deepseekcoder.github.io/
DeepSeek Math: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03300
DeepSeek MoE: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.06066
DeepSeek V2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.04434
Anthropic CEO on DeepSeek: https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls?s=09
Liang Wenfeng: https://tv.cctv.com/2025/01/20/VIDEP7O5fkXufWLSm3J5pwkL250120.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Wenfeng
Jim Simons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons
Altman Hopeless Quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiE7FsdRzz8&t=3096s
1-2 two years behind quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1egAKCKPKCk
2-year Frenzy: https://www.wired.com/story/google-openai-gemini-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence/
Bing Sydney: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html
Botched Bard: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/10/google-employees-slam-ceo-sundar-pichai-for-rushed-bard-announcement.html
Weights Visualized: https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/LLM-Anim-visualization.gif?w=800
MoE, credit Maarten Grootendorst: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F101e8ddc-9aa7-4e24-92fc-78d25da73399_880x656.png
https://zilliz.com/blog/why-deepseek-v3-is-taking-the-ai-world-by-storm
Post Training credit Zhangjunlin: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*sCowcm-iJq9M3MOh6lorQg.png
Shoggoth Meme: https://huyenchip.com/assets/pics/rlhf/2-shoggoth.jpg
Value Model vs GRPO: https://community.aws/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.community.aws%2Fa%2F2ra6RfOUylhUM8M3eDEMfDlB3l7%2FScre.webp%3FimgSize%3D1698x894&w=3840&q=75
Welch Labs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLAoVGf_74&t=2s
Chip smuggling: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-ai-chip-smuggling-to-china-becomes-an-industry?rc=sy0ihq
‘AI War’: https://scale.com/blog/win-the-ai-war
Doubao 1.5 Pro: https://www.aibase.com/tool/35837
Kimi 1.5: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12599v1
o1-o3, OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/
Semi-analysis on R1: https://semianalysis.com/2025/01/31/deepseek-debates/
Perplexity 1776: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/open-sourcing-r1-1776
OpenAI Counter-narrative: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/29/openai-chatgpt-deepseek-china-us-ai-models
DeepSeek Banned?: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/deepseek-ai-us-ban-prison-b2692396.html
Guards to stop DeepSeek team leaving China: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-national-treasure-china-now-closely-guarded?rc=sy0ihq
Comments
Great video, very well presented.
Kol Tregaskes
2025-04-21 14:03:51 +0000 UTCYouhoooooo can’t wait to watch! Thanks Philip!
Antoine Ferrere
2025-04-08 19:24:21 +0000 UTCThe content of this video is obviously rock solid, as usual. This time, the soundtrack really stood out! Great work Philip, can't wait for the next one :)
Sunishchal Dev
2025-04-08 07:12:51 +0000 UTC
