DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng stated during a four-hour investor meeting that the company’s central objective is achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), explicitly deprioritizing user growth, enterprise products, and immediate commercial returns.
- DeepSeek will not pursue excessive profits or build super-apps; instead, it focuses on general-purpose coding agents and continual learning as the path to AGI.
- The company maintains an open-source strategy, releasing the same models it deploys internally to strengthen organizational cohesion and benefit society.
- Liang believes the gap between Chinese and American AI is primarily a resource gap, relying on scaling laws to narrow this divide.
- Commercialization is not the current objective, with a full pivot toward commercial goals expected only far in the future.
This strategic restraint aims to increase DeepSeek's probability of succeeding in AGI by avoiding distractions from product maximization and focusing resources on core technological advancement.