DeepSeek’s Normally Boring CEO Is Reportedly Spiraling After Supposed Leak
A planned funding round at Hangzhou, China-based hedge fund and unexpected AI juggernaut DeepSeek has probably been cancelled. According to a very delicately worded Bloomberg report, this comes just on the heels of the supposed leak of a long, off-the-cuff conversation with the company’s reclusive founder and CEO, Liang Wenfeng, that went viral. They were apparently posted by a news publication owned by Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent, but there’s now a dead link in older articles and blog posts about this incident.
- ▪A planned funding round at Hangzhou, China-based hedge fund and unexpected AI juggernaut DeepSeek has probably been cancelled.
- ▪According to a very delicately worded Bloomberg report, this comes just on the heels of the supposed leak of a long, off-the-cuff conversation with the company’s reclusive founder and CEO, Liang Wenfeng, that went viral.
- ▪They were apparently posted by a news publication owned by Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent, but there’s now a dead link in older articles and blog posts about this incident.
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A planned funding round at Hangzhou, China-based hedge fund and unexpected AI juggernaut DeepSeek has probably been cancelled. According to a very delicately worded Bloomberg report, this comes just on the heels of the supposed leak of a long, off-the-cuff conversation with the company’s reclusive founder and CEO, Liang Wenfeng, that went viral. The conversation in question would read as extremely dull to most people, but went viral for being more than a bit impolitic if you’re an extremely AI-brained…
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