"OpenAI is Not God” - The DeepSeek Documentary on Liang Wenfeng, R1 and What's Next

For early access to future documentaries and 30 plus exclusive adfree videos, check out my Patreon link in the description. Deepseek wasn't meant to happen. The lines were well rehearsed. The West had an ever growing lead in AI.

Language models were getting ever more expensive as they got more intelligent. And research was retreating behind a veil of competitive secrecy. But on the 20th of January, 2025, those reading those lines started to stutter. A model that visibly seemed to think before it spoke had been released.

Deepseek R1. It was unbelievably cheap, competitive with the best the West had to offer and out in the open, available to anyone to download. Even OpenAI admit as much, arguing in March that Deep Seek shows quote that our lead is not wide and is narrowing. OpenAI even want models like Deepseek R1 banned because they say, quote, "Deepse could be compelled by the Chinese Communist Party to manipulate its models to cause harm.

And because DeepSseek is simultaneously state subsidized, state controlled, and freely available, it will cost users their privacy and security. Now, while Google's Gemini 2.5 and the new chat GBT image gen have wrestled back the headlines at the beginning of April, Deepseek is preparing to deliver yet another shock to the system with Deepseek R2 expected later in April or May. But truth be told, many of you will already know all of that. What you might not know, though, are the aims and beliefs expressed in desperate interviews by the secretive founder behind Deepseek, billionaire Leang Wenfang, a man who now has to hide from crowds of adoring fans in his own hometown, according to a friend he texted, and who has now fled his home province with his family to escape further attention.

Nor will some of you know about the first AI operation that made Leang his money and then went arai or the beauty of some of the technical innovations behind the omega viral Deepseek R1. Or just how the western labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have fired back with their own narratives in the days and weeks since the release of R1. There is frankly so much that so many people don't know about the company Deepseek and what it means. The truth is that Deepseek is a whale caught in a net of narratives, most of which contradict each other....