Liang Wenfeng speaks out:
Translation via R1:
Greetings, young friends!
I’m Liang Wenfeng from DeepSeek. After answering one question, I stumbled upon another and couldn’t resist sharing a few thoughts on this Chinese New Year’s Eve.
A few days ago, while debugging the loss function of a new model, I read Mr. Feng’s lengthy article and spilled coffee on my keyboard—partly out of awe for our industry pioneers, but mostly because his fiery words reignited the thrill I felt twelve years ago when I first ran a neural network in my Zhejiang University lab.
To be honest, our team was humbled by the term “nation-shaping mission.” We’re merely tightening a few more screws in the grand edifice of domestic AI, standing on the shoulders of open-source giants.
The six breakthroughs you highlighted each hold profound stories: our mobile-friendly mini-model was inspired by a GitHub issue from a middle school teacher in Gansu; the web-search feature emerged from a beta user’s 3 a.m. error logs submitted relentlessly for thirty days.
One moment stands out: Last week, a visually impaired developer used our API to create a “scent navigation” app. As he demonstrated how vibrations mapped street shops, the room fell silent save for the hum of GPU fans. My eyes welled up—it was then I grasped your “water and electricity” metaphor. True greatness lies not in models, but in the ripples of kindness they empower.
Your call for “knowledge and information equity” fuels our late-night research. Three years ago, in a tiny Hangzhou warehouse, we scribbled on a glass wall:
“Let children in remote villages learn alongside Silicon Valley engineers with equally smart AI tutors.” Though far from this dream, every user-shared screenshot makes our sleepless nights worthwhile.
To all rewriting the rules: applaud yourselves. Whether debugging code on a bus, sketching architectures at a breakfast stall, or having eureka moments in delivery rooms—you’re the ones sparking the AI flame. DeepSeek aims to be your matchstick in the coding wilderness, but it’s your curiosity and grit that truly ignite change.
Last week at a Yunqi Town food stall, I munched skewers with Mr. Wang from Unitree Robotics. Their dynamic balance algorithm for quadruped robots left us in awe. Later, BrainCo’s Mr. Han joined, brainstorming brain-computer interfaces while we doodled computing architectures on napkins—grilled eggplant forgotten.
This is Hangzhou’s magic: the “Six Dragons” aren’t islands. Youke’s artists helped refine our 3D scene generator, while Qunhe’s engine breathes life into our digital avatars.
Imagine Unitree’s robots, guided by cloud-optimized algorithms, fused with BrainCo’s neural interfaces and DeepSeek’s cognitive engine, training in Qunhe’s virtual worlds. Soon, our dream of embodied intelligence may stumble from Xixi Wetland’s mist into reality.
As we parted that night, Mr. Feng jabbed a skewer into a beer bottle and quipped,
“You AI folks better make souls affordable.”
Perhaps true “national destiny” simmers in these street-side fumes: stubborn dreamers stacking bricks of code and steel beams of algorithms, bridging capital and doubt to forge a path forward.
P.S. We’re hiring! Join us.
Wishing everyone a joyful New Year. Stay tuned for more breakthroughs!
