Founder of the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer and of DeepSeek, the Chinese lab whose openly released R1 reasoning model in January 2025 prompted a global reassessment of what frontier training costs.
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Key arguments & positions
Argues that publishing open weights and research builds more long-term value than keeping a lead secret.
Says China should aim to contribute original research rather than follow US labs, and has framed compute limits as a reason to focus on efficiency.
Prices DeepSeek's API far below US frontier labs, a move he has described as a research and adoption strategy rather than a loss-leader.
Accomplishments
Founded the quantitative fund High-Flyer, which built the GPU cluster DeepSeek trains on.
Founded DeepSeek in 2023; released DeepSeek-V3 and the R1 reasoning model with open weights.
R1's January 2025 release triggered one of the largest single-day losses in US tech market history.
