Sam Altman has been very clear about his way of seeing things in Openai from the beginning. He has always been in a hurry to launch the ED models his company, market them and be looking for investment rounds to be able to sustain that frantic expense rhythm. The funny thing is that one of his greatest rivals, Deepseekyou are looking for a totally opposite strategy.
Income grows. As they point out In Financial Timesthe company led by Liang Wenfeng has become one of the favorites of the Chinese technological panorama. Its payment services, consisting of the API for the use of Deepseek V3 and R1, have worked very well and have allowed income to cover operating expenses for the first time last month.
But Deepseek doesn’t look for money. However, industry experts point out in FT that Liang has no intention of trying to take advantage of the time to maximize financial income marketing more and more their (efficient) products.
No investment. Nor seek investors who support their goalsand in fact there is talk of how difficult it is to talk to the founder of the company. An investor of a multi -million dollar fund in China indicated how “we took advantage of high -level government connections and we only managed to sit with someone from their financial department who told us that they regretted it but did not look for investment rounds.”
A for the AGI. Instead the company is focused on developing its current models and also in seeking the development of general artificial intelligence (AGI). It is the same challenge that other rivals pursue, but it is not clear what path each one is following to reach those with superior abilities even to those of human intelligence in all areas.
Totally different from OpenAI. Deepseek’s approach is totally opposite to Openai, which from the first moment took advantage of Chatgpt to create a commercial business around that chatbot. Then the successive (and colossal) rounds of investment would arrive. The rumored SoftBank’s round, which It is estimated at 40,000 million dollarswould make its value amount to 260,000 million dollars.
A small draft startup. In Financial Times they also point out that Depseek has 160 employees, something that contrasts with the more than 2,000 that OpenAi has. That has made others like Alibaba or Tencent convince business clients such as Apple, who will use QWen (from Alibaba) as an option for iPhone users in China.
And with a “small” infrastructure. According to sources close to the company, Liang bought 10,000 GPUS NVIDIA H800 and 10,000 A100 in recent years. He did it before access to them was vetoed. It is not an too high amount if we compare it for example with which Elon Musk acquired In XAI, and also both are somewhat less powerful models than H100 and of course than modern B200.
Deepseek R2 and V4 are on their way. The new versions of their AI models are in full development. They were expected to be launched in May, but the company may decide to accelerate that launch and make them available to the general public even before to take advantage of the good time of the company.
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