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1. an ordinary little pig · deepseek-quests · 2019– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2019–",
     "detail": "the whale's quiet philanthropy: rmb 221.38m across 15 charities in 2022 alone, and liang personally giving rmb 138m under the pseudonym 一只平凡的小猪 — 'an ordinary little pig' — disclosed only through high-flyer's own history page.",
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2. the idle-time compute program · deepseek-quests · 2021– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2021–",
     "detail": "the idle-time compute program: ~27% of fire-flyer ii's 2022 capacity — over 15m gpu-hours — donated to 50+ university and institute labs on a time-sharing scheduler. the same scheduler that time-shares trading and research workloads gives academia the surplus.",
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     "status": "continuing",
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3. the algorithm that escaped · deepseek-quests · 2024-02– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2024-02–",
     "detail": "grpo — group relative policy optimization — ships inside deepseekmath in february 2024, becomes the rl engine of r1, and then escapes the lab entirely: kimi k2 thinking and the rest of the open-weights frontier adopted it. the algorithm is now load-bearing infrastructure for the whole field.",
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4. prover · deepseek-quests · 2024-04– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2024-04–",
     "detail": "the theorem-proving line: prover-v1.5, then prover-v2 in april 2025 — a 7b worker plus the 671b teacher for lean 4 proofs.",
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     "status": "continuing",
     "title": "prover",
     "url": "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Prover-V2"
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5. vl2 and janus · deepseek-quests · 2024-12– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2024-12–",
     "detail": "the vision-language and multimodal line: vl2 in december 2024, then janus — and janus-pro-7b shipped on january 28, 2025, in the middle of the crash week. the line keeps shipping while the flagship consumes the attention.",
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     "title": "vl2 and janus",
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6. open source week · deepseek-quests · 2025-02-24 – 2025-03-01 (approximate)

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     "dates": "2025-02-24 – 2025-03-01",
     "detail": "open source week: six daily drops — flashmla, deepep, deepgemm, dualpipe, eplb with profile data, then 3fs and smallpond — the fund's internal infrastructure stack released as public goods. closed the week with the theoretical-545%-margin disclosure.",
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       "src-ci-gigazine-545"
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     "status": "ended",
     "title": "open source week",
     "url": "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index"
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7. the consumer app · deepseek-quests · 2025-01– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2025-01–",
     "detail": "the consumer app that briefly beat chatgpt — #1 free app in the us and 51 other countries on january 26 — then became the geopolitical lightning rod: banned from government devices across a dozen countries, yet still ~143m mau in china by august 2025, second to doubao's 157m per questmobile.",
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8. the ascend hedge · deepseek-quests · 2025-04– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2025-04–",
     "detail": "the domestic-chip stack: after the failed ascend training run (ft, august 2025), the posture settles into nvidia for training and ascend for inference — then v3.1's ue8m0-fp8 'for next-generation domestic chips,' v3.2-exp's day-1 ascend/cann support, and the months of ascend optimization that reportedly delayed v4.",
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9. r2 · deepseek-quests · 2025-05 – 2026 (approximate)

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     "dates": "2025-05 – 2026",
     "detail": "the model that never shipped: r2 was reported stalled in june 2025 — liang unsatisfied with performance — then reportedly failed on huawei ascend in august. it was never officially announced and never released; the v-line absorbed the flagship slot.",
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10. math-v2 · deepseek-quests · 2025-11– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2025-11–",
      "detail": "self-verifiable theorem proving: math-v2 posts gold-level imo-2025 and cmo-2024 results and 118/120 on putnam 2024 — scaled test-time compute pointed at formal math.",
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      "title": "math-v2",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2511.22570"
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11. the ipo track · deepseek-quests · 2026-05– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2026-05–",
      "detail": "the listing track: alongside the first external round, reporting puts deepseek on star-market ipo preparation — the lab that 'had no financing plans' heading for public markets inside three years.",
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      "title": "the ipo track",
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12. the fund keeps earning · deepseek-quests · 2024-10– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2024-10–",
      "detail": "the whale keeps trading: the market-neutral exit in october 2024, then +56.55% mean product return in 2025 — #2 among >rmb-10b chinese quant privates on >rmb 70b aum. the patron is still winning while the lab spends.",
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