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- openai-distillation denial in referee exchange — scientificamerican.com (2025-09, reporting). openai-distillation denial in referee exchange; h800 main
- 545% theoretical — scmp.com (2025-03-01, reporting). 545% theoretical; 226.75 nodes×8×h800; $87k→$562k
- the real costs and computing power, debated — scmp.com (2025-01, reporting). 2.8m gpu-hr/$5.6m; high-flyer spend trail (¥200m/¥1b)
- distillation industry-common — scmp.com (2025-01-30, reporting). distillation industry-common; deepseek hasn't admitted
- questmobile aug 2025: doubao 157m vs deepseek 143m mau — scmp.com (2025-09, reporting). questmobile aug 2025: doubao 157m vs deepseek 143m mau
- one-year retrospective — scmp.com (2026-01, reference). one-year retrospective; kevin xu quote
- o1 26% vs r1 100% comparison — securityweek.com (2025-02-04, reporting). o1 26% vs r1 100% comparison
- up-to-12x cache-hit hike — en.sedaily.com (2026-08-14, reporting). up-to-12x cache-hit hike; peak/off-peak split; ipo context
- notes essay omits open-weights point — simonwillison.net (2025-01-29, reporting). notes essay omits open-weights point
- v3 dec 2024 → r1 jan 20 → janus jan 28 timeline — sydney.edu.au (2025-01-29, reference). v3 dec 2024 → r1 jan 20 → janus jan 28 timeline
- the teardown: $5.576m real but narrow — theteardown.co (2026, reference). teardown: $5.576m real-but-narrow; doubao overtook; r2 slipped; v4 trails 3–6 mo
- coverage of amodei essay — techcrunch (2025-01-29, reporting). coverage of amodei essay
- coverage of wiz finding — techcrunch (2025-01-30, reporting). coverage of wiz finding
- hundreds of billions capex pledge — techcrunch (2025-01-29, reporting). "hundreds of billions" capex pledge
- doubao at ¥0.0008/1k tokens; 99.3% cut — techflowpost.com (2024-05, reporting). doubao ¥0.0008/1k tokens; 99.3% cut; sector-wide price war
- semianalysis figures amplified — techspot.com (2025-02-03, reporting). semianalysis figures amplified
- v3.1's ue8m0 fp8 for domestic chips — theregister.com (2025-08-22, reporting). v3.1 ue8m0 fp8 for next-gen domestic chips
- deepseek launches v4.1-flash — time.news (2026-09-10, reporting). v4.1-flash multimodal; citic for star ipo
- the significant price-rise warning — the next web (2026, reporting). the "significant" price-rise warning
- ny/va/or/nc state actions — tomsguide.com (2025-02-17, reporting). ny/va/or/nc state actions
- customs-documented cases — tomshardware.com (2025-05-01, reporting). customs-documented cases
- singapore share of nvidia revenue 9%→22% — tomshardware.com (2025-02, reporting). singapore share of nvidia revenue 9%→22%
- v3.2-exp ships day-1 ascend/cann support — tomshardware.com (2025-09-29, reporting). v3.2-exp day-1 ascend/cann/vllm support
- the chinese open-weights landscape — turingpost.com (2025, reference). kimi k2/r1/qwen3/glm-4.5 comparative landscape
- deceptive delight/bad likert/crescendo bypasses — origin-unit42.paloaltonetworks.com (2025-02, reference). deceptive delight/bad likert/crescendo bypasses
- r1 launch-day coverage — venturebeat (2025-01-20, reporting). r1 launch-day coverage; vendor benchmark claims
- openai evidence claim — the verge (2025-01-29, reporting). openai evidence claim; msft api exfiltration; sacks quote
- strengthened our conviction — the verge (2025-01-29, reporting). "strengthened our conviction"; inference compute
- high-flyer on wikipedia — wikipedia (2026, reference). founding feb 2016; fire-flyer i/ii; aum $10b dec 2025
- high-flyer→deepseek timeline charted — thewirechina.com (2025-02-23, reference). high-flyer→deepseek timeline charted
- app-layer vs in-weights censorship layers — wired (2025-01, reporting). app-layer vs in-weights censorship layers
- didnt stop a single one — wired (2025-01-31, reporting). "didn't stop a single one"; sampath quote
- wired origin story — nehtus (2025-01, reporting). wired origin story; liang "never funding, but export control" quote; epoch ai 1/10 compute
- open clickhouse — wiz.io (2025-01-29, reference). open clickhouse; >1m log lines; chat history+keys
- second deepseek moment — kimi k2 — xpert.digital (2025-07-21, reference). "second deepseek moment" — kimi k2
- post-mortem of the january panics narrative factors — thezvi.substack.com (2025-05, reporting). post-mortem of the january panic's "narrative factors"
- the first cfo: yan wentao — m.163.com (2025-09, reporting). cfo yan wentao (b.1991, hillhouse); 2009 internship anecdote
- high-flyer 2025: +56.55%, >rmb 70b — 21jingji.com (2026-01-14, reporting). 2025 return 56.55% (#2); >rmb 70b aum; 3/5-yr means
- registered address: 汇金国际大厦西1幢1201室 — 21jingji.com (2025-01-14, reporting). registered address: 汇金国际大厦西1幢1201室
- first-ever liang interview — m.36kr.com (2023-05-24, interview). first-ever liang interview; naming of 深度求索; gpu ladder quote; funding logic
- the canonical techno-idealism interview (于丽丽/暗涌) — 36kr.com (2024-07-17, interview). the canonical "techno-idealism" interview (于丽丽/暗涌)
- which countries have banned deepseek and why — aljazeera.com (2025-02-06, reporting). nasa jan-31; australia feb-4; korea ministries
- allen's house testimony: the $5.576m math — republicans-science.house.gov (2025, reference). csis's allen house testimony: $5.576m math; oct-7-2022 controls; h800 workaround history
- anthropics own account: 24k accts/16m exchanges — anthropic (2026-02-23, primary). anthropic's own account: 24k accts/16m exchanges; ds 150k+
- texas first state-level ban — associated press (2025-01-31, reporting). texas first state-level ban
- the api changelog: v4-pro ga 2026-08-13 — api-docs.deepseek.com (2026-09, primary). v4-pro ga 8/13/26; vision-exp 8/21/26; v4.1-flash 9/10/26
- official app announcement — deepseek.com (2025-01-15, primary). official app announcement
- state dept official allegation — asiatimes.com (2025-06-25, reporting). state dept official allegation; wang 50k-h100 claim; nvidia "lawfully acquired h800"; v3=2048 h800s
- liang wenfeng bio: b.1985, wuchuan, zju — baike.baidu.com (2026-09, reference). bio: b.1985 wuchuan; zju; timeline incl. li qiang symposium, huang meeting, hurun
- the jacobi-to-high-flyer history — bianews.com (2025, reporting). jacobi 2013; name origins; 80k-capital story; dji's wang tao; aum ladder; 4 partners; donations
- accusation coverage — bloomberg (2026-02-23, reporting). accusation coverage
- liang tops amodei and brockman as richest ai founder — bloomberg (2026-07-14, reporting). $36b; richest ai-model founder
- top china quant winds down strategy — bloomberg (2024-10-21, reporting). >rmb 50b; hedged products to zero
- v4 delayed for ascend-tuned stack (yuyuantantian) — bloomberg (2026-04-26, reporting). v4 delayed for ascend-tuned stack (yuyuantantian)
- feb-2025 valuation-range debate ($1b vs $150b) — bloomberg (2025-02-10, reporting). feb-2025 valuation-range debate ($1b vs $150b)
- nvidia −17%/−$600b single-biggest one-day loss — wayback machine (2025-01-27, archive). nvidia −17%/−$600b "single-biggest one-day loss"; ives $8b liang assets
- the may 2026 round; the fewest-conditions stance — chaincatcher.com (2026-05-09, reporting). same round; liang's "fewest conditions" stance
- registry-derived ownership chain (99% chengen) — champsignal.com (2026-09, reference). registry-derived ownership chain (99% cheng'en)
- the anthropic distillation figures — cnbc (2026-02-24, reporting). minimax 13m / moonshot 3.4m / ds 150k; openai letter earlier in feb
- nasa memo verbatim — cnbc (2025-01-31, reporting). nasa memo verbatim; navy email late jan
- may-8 round launch — coinlive.com (2026-05, reporting). may-8 round launch; liang's rmb 20b; ff1/ff2 cost figures; ~84% control
- ~130 ds / ~200 hf staff — the-decoder.com (2025-03, reporting). ~130 ds / ~200 hf staff; wsj us-travel warning
- first public model — github (2023-11-02, repo). first public model; 1–33b; 2t tokens
- 7b/67b dense llms — github (2023-11-29, repo). 7b/67b dense llms
- the deepseek-math repo — grpo — github (2024-02-05, repo). math-7b (arxiv 2402.03300); grpo; author list
- law-firm equity-structure analysis — dehehantong.com (2025, reporting). law-firm equity-structure analysis; 17 jul 2023, rmb 10m, liang >80% via chengpu/cheng'en
- ~150 staff; the gold-medal hiring rep — donga.com (2025-02-11, reporting). ~150 staff; gold-medal hiring rep; no kpis/titles; >bytedance pay
- chengdu apartment start — europeantech.news (2025, reporting). chengdu apartment start; "freelancer till 2013"; ~rmb60bn/$8bn since 2015 launch
- fire-flyer ai-hpc paper — arxiv.org (2024-08, primary). fire-flyer ai-hpc paper; 10k pcie a100; authors "deepseek ai" incl. wenfeng liang
- the flashmla repo — github (2025-02, repo). flashmla; v3.2 sparse-kernel updates
- the forbes liang profile: $39.8b — forbes (2026-09, reference). $39.8b; "$7.4b raised june 2026 at $52b"
- jan-27 selloff — fortune (2025-01-27, reporting). jan-27 selloff; app #1; andreessen quote
- alibaba collapse — gate.com (2026-05-09, reporting). alibaba collapse; ~$45b; tencent 20% declined; ic-fund lead possibility; hf 56.55% on 70b
- 64 quotes from investor call — purported leak — geopolitechs.org (2026, community). "64 quotes from investor call" — purported leak; unverified
- openai/ft evidence claim — gizmodo.com (2025-01-29, reporting). openai/ft evidence claim; sacks "substantial evidence"; microsoft api flag
- corroboration of 10 departures — gogoai.xin (2026, reporting). corroboration of 10 departures
- 10k a100 stockpile (2023 interview) — gpb.org (2025-01-28, reporting). 10k a100 stockpile (2023 interview); 2,000+ h800; export-control window
- huang–liang meeting — theguardian.com (2025-04-17, reporting). huang–liang meeting; house committee letter to nvidia
- guos own page: ai researcher in deepseek, july 2023–april 2026 + core-contributor lists — guoday.github.io (2026-09, primary). guo's own page: "ai researcher in deepseek, july 2023–april 2026" + core-contributor lists
- the hfai blog: the 10k-a100 cluster — high-flyer.cn (2022, primary). gtc-2022 blog: 10k-a100 cluster, ≥90% util, 3fs/hfreduce/hfai.nn, 50+ labs, 2.7m gpu-hrs
Original source occurrences
- openai-distillation denial in referee exchange · scientificamerican.com · 2025-09 (month) · original ID: src-ci-sciam-secrets · Other public citations of this URL
openai-distillation denial in referee exchange; h800 main
- 545% theoretical · scmp.com · 2025-03-01 (day) · original ID: src-ci-scmp-545-margin · Other public citations of this URL
545% theoretical; 226.75 nodes×8×h800; $87k→$562k
- the real costs and computing power, debated · scmp.com · 2025-01 (month) · original ID: src-ci-scmp-cost-debate · Other public citations of this URL
2.8m gpu-hr/$5.6m; high-flyer spend trail (¥200m/¥1b)
- distillation industry-common · scmp.com · 2025-01-30 (day) · original ID: src-ci-scmp-distillation · Other public citations of this URL
distillation industry-common; deepseek hasn't admitted
- questmobile aug 2025: doubao 157m vs deepseek 143m mau · scmp.com · 2025-09 (month) · original ID: src-ci-scmp-doubao-users · Other public citations of this URL
questmobile aug 2025: doubao 157m vs deepseek 143m mau
- one-year retrospective · scmp.com · 2026-01 (month) · original ID: src-ci-scmp-year-on · Other public citations of this URL
one-year retrospective; kevin xu quote
- o1 26% vs r1 100% comparison · securityweek.com · 2025-02-04 (day) · original ID: src-ci-securityweek-jailbreak · Other public citations of this URL
o1 26% vs r1 100% comparison
- up-to-12x cache-hit hike · en.sedaily.com · 2026-08-14 (day) · original ID: src-ci-sedaily-price-hike · Other public citations of this URL
up-to-12x cache-hit hike; peak/off-peak split; ipo context
- notes essay omits open-weights point · simonwillison.net · 2025-01-29 (day) · original ID: src-ci-simonwillison-amodei · Other public citations of this URL
notes essay omits open-weights point
- v3 dec 2024 → r1 jan 20 → janus jan 28 timeline · sydney.edu.au · 2025-01-29 (day) · original ID: src-ci-sydney-explainer · Other public citations of this URL
v3 dec 2024 → r1 jan 20 → janus jan 28 timeline
- the teardown: $5.576m real but narrow · theteardown.co · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-teardown · Other public citations of this URL
teardown: $5.576m real-but-narrow; doubao overtook; r2 slipped; v4 trails 3–6 mo
- coverage of amodei essay · techcrunch · 2025-01-29 (day) · original ID: src-ci-techcrunch-amodei · Other public citations of this URL
coverage of amodei essay
- coverage of wiz finding · techcrunch · 2025-01-30 (day) · original ID: src-ci-techcrunch-database · Other public citations of this URL
coverage of wiz finding
- hundreds of billions capex pledge · techcrunch · 2025-01-29 (day) · original ID: src-ci-techcrunch-zuck · Other public citations of this URL
"hundreds of billions" capex pledge
- doubao at ¥0.0008/1k tokens; 99.3% cut · techflowpost.com · 2024-05 (month) · original ID: src-ci-techflow-doubao · Other public citations of this URL
doubao ¥0.0008/1k tokens; 99.3% cut; sector-wide price war
- semianalysis figures amplified · techspot.com · 2025-02-03 (day) · original ID: src-ci-techspot-16b · Other public citations of this URL
semianalysis figures amplified
- v3.1's ue8m0 fp8 for domestic chips · theregister.com · 2025-08-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-theregister-v31 · Other public citations of this URL
v3.1 ue8m0 fp8 for next-gen domestic chips
- deepseek launches v4.1-flash · time.news · 2026-09-10 (day) · original ID: src-ci-timenews-v41 · Other public citations of this URL
v4.1-flash multimodal; citic for star ipo
- the significant price-rise warning · the next web · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-tnw-price-rise · Other public citations of this URL
the "significant" price-rise warning
- ny/va/or/nc state actions · tomsguide.com · 2025-02-17 (day) · original ID: src-ci-tomsguide-bans · Other public citations of this URL
ny/va/or/nc state actions
- customs-documented cases · tomshardware.com · 2025-05-01 (day) · original ID: src-ci-tomshardware-lobsters · Other public citations of this URL
customs-documented cases
- singapore share of nvidia revenue 9%→22% · tomshardware.com · 2025-02 (month) · original ID: src-ci-tomshardware-singapore · Other public citations of this URL
singapore share of nvidia revenue 9%→22%
- v3.2-exp ships day-1 ascend/cann support · tomshardware.com · 2025-09-29 (day) · original ID: src-ci-tomshardware-v32-cann · Other public citations of this URL
v3.2-exp day-1 ascend/cann/vllm support
- the chinese open-weights landscape · turingpost.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-ci-turingpost-chinesemodels · Other public citations of this URL
kimi k2/r1/qwen3/glm-4.5 comparative landscape
- deceptive delight/bad likert/crescendo bypasses · origin-unit42.paloaltonetworks.com · 2025-02 (month) · original ID: src-ci-unit42-jailbreak · Other public citations of this URL
deceptive delight/bad likert/crescendo bypasses
- r1 launch-day coverage · venturebeat · 2025-01-20 (day) · original ID: src-ci-venturebeat-r1 · Other public citations of this URL
r1 launch-day coverage; vendor benchmark claims
- openai evidence claim · the verge · 2025-01-29 (day) · original ID: src-ci-verge-distillation · Other public citations of this URL
openai evidence claim; msft api exfiltration; sacks quote
- strengthened our conviction · the verge · 2025-01-29 (day) · original ID: src-ci-verge-zuckerberg · Other public citations of this URL
"strengthened our conviction"; inference compute
- high-flyer on wikipedia · wikipedia · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-wikipedia-highflyer · Other public citations of this URL
founding feb 2016; fire-flyer i/ii; aum $10b dec 2025
- high-flyer→deepseek timeline charted · thewirechina.com · 2025-02-23 (day) · original ID: src-ci-wirechina-highflyer · Other public citations of this URL
high-flyer→deepseek timeline charted
- app-layer vs in-weights censorship layers · wired · 2025-01 (month) · original ID: src-ci-wired-censorship · Other public citations of this URL
app-layer vs in-weights censorship layers
- didnt stop a single one · wired · 2025-01-31 (day) · original ID: src-ci-wired-jailbreak · Other public citations of this URL
"didn't stop a single one"; sampath quote
- wired origin story · nehtus · 2025-01 (month) · original ID: src-ci-wired-made-model · Other public citations of this URL
wired origin story; liang "never funding, but export control" quote; epoch ai 1/10 compute
- open clickhouse · wiz.io · 2025-01-29 (day) · original ID: src-ci-wiz-database · Other public citations of this URL
open clickhouse; >1m log lines; chat history+keys
- second deepseek moment — kimi k2 · xpert.digital · 2025-07-21 (day) · original ID: src-ci-xpert-kimi · Other public citations of this URL
"second deepseek moment" — kimi k2
- post-mortem of the january panics narrative factors · thezvi.substack.com · 2025-05 (month) · original ID: src-ci-zvi-r1-0528 · Other public citations of this URL
post-mortem of the january panic's "narrative factors"
- the first cfo: yan wentao · m.163.com · 2025-09 (month) · original ID: src-hp-163-cfo · Other public citations of this URL
cfo yan wentao (b.1991, hillhouse); 2009 internship anecdote
- high-flyer 2025: +56.55%, >rmb 70b · 21jingji.com · 2026-01-14 (day) · original ID: src-hp-21jingji-hf2025 · Other public citations of this URL
2025 return 56.55% (#2); >rmb 70b aum; 3/5-yr means
- registered address: 汇金国际大厦西1幢1201室 · 21jingji.com · 2025-01-14 (day) · original ID: src-hp-21jingji-office · Other public citations of this URL
registered address: 汇金国际大厦西1幢1201室
- first-ever liang interview · m.36kr.com · 2023-05-24 (day) · original ID: src-hp-36kr-interview1 · Other public citations of this URL
first-ever liang interview; naming of 深度求索; gpu ladder quote; funding logic
- the canonical techno-idealism interview (于丽丽/暗涌) · 36kr.com · 2024-07-17 (day) · original ID: src-hp-36kr-interview2 · Other public citations of this URL
the canonical "techno-idealism" interview (于丽丽/暗涌)
- which countries have banned deepseek and why · aljazeera.com · 2025-02-06 (day) · original ID: src-hp-aljazeera-bans · Other public citations of this URL
nasa jan-31; australia feb-4; korea ministries
- allen's house testimony: the $5.576m math · republicans-science.house.gov · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-allen-testimony · Other public citations of this URL
csis's allen house testimony: $5.576m math; oct-7-2022 controls; h800 workaround history
- anthropics own account: 24k accts/16m exchanges · anthropic · 2026-02-23 (day) · original ID: src-hp-anthropic · Other public citations of this URL
anthropic's own account: 24k accts/16m exchanges; ds 150k+
- texas first state-level ban · associated press · 2025-01-31 (day) · original ID: src-hp-ap-texas · Other public citations of this URL
texas first state-level ban
- the api changelog: v4-pro ga 2026-08-13 · api-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-09 (month) · original ID: src-hp-api-changelog · Other public citations of this URL
v4-pro ga 8/13/26; vision-exp 8/21/26; v4.1-flash 9/10/26
- official app announcement · deepseek.com · 2025-01-15 (day) · original ID: src-hp-app-news · Other public citations of this URL
official app announcement
- state dept official allegation · asiatimes.com · 2025-06-25 (day) · original ID: src-hp-asiatimes · Other public citations of this URL
state dept official allegation; wang 50k-h100 claim; nvidia "lawfully acquired h800"; v3=2048 h800s
- liang wenfeng bio: b.1985, wuchuan, zju · baike.baidu.com · 2026-09 (month) · original ID: src-hp-baidu-liang · Other public citations of this URL
bio: b.1985 wuchuan; zju; timeline incl. li qiang symposium, huang meeting, hurun
- the jacobi-to-high-flyer history · bianews.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-bianews-history · Other public citations of this URL
jacobi 2013; name origins; 80k-capital story; dji's wang tao; aum ladder; 4 partners; donations
- accusation coverage · bloomberg · 2026-02-23 (day) · original ID: src-hp-bloomberg-anthropic · Other public citations of this URL
accusation coverage
- liang tops amodei and brockman as richest ai founder · bloomberg · 2026-07-14 (day) · original ID: src-hp-bloomberg-liang-rich · Other public citations of this URL
$36b; richest ai-model founder
- top china quant winds down strategy · bloomberg · 2024-10-21 (day) · original ID: src-hp-bloomberg-neutral · Other public citations of this URL
>rmb 50b; hedged products to zero
- v4 delayed for ascend-tuned stack (yuyuantantian) · bloomberg · 2026-04-26 (day) · original ID: src-hp-bloomberg-v4delay · Other public citations of this URL
v4 delayed for ascend-tuned stack (yuyuantantian)
- feb-2025 valuation-range debate ($1b vs $150b) · bloomberg · 2025-02-10 (day) · original ID: src-hp-bloomberg-wealth-feb · Other public citations of this URL
feb-2025 valuation-range debate ($1b vs $150b)
- nvidia −17%/−$600b single-biggest one-day loss · wayback machine · 2025-01-27 (day) · original ID: src-hp-cbs-nvidia · Other public citations of this URL
nvidia −17%/−$600b "single-biggest one-day loss"; ives $8b liang assets
- the may 2026 round; the fewest-conditions stance · chaincatcher.com · 2026-05-09 (day) · original ID: src-hp-chaincatcher-funding · Other public citations of this URL
same round; liang's "fewest conditions" stance
- registry-derived ownership chain (99% chengen) · champsignal.com · 2026-09 (month) · original ID: src-hp-champsignal · Other public citations of this URL
registry-derived ownership chain (99% cheng'en)
- the anthropic distillation figures · cnbc · 2026-02-24 (day) · original ID: src-hp-cnbc-anthropic · Other public citations of this URL
minimax 13m / moonshot 3.4m / ds 150k; openai letter earlier in feb
- nasa memo verbatim · cnbc · 2025-01-31 (day) · original ID: src-hp-cnbc-nasa · Other public citations of this URL
nasa memo verbatim; navy email late jan
- may-8 round launch · coinlive.com · 2026-05 (month) · original ID: src-hp-coinlive-funding · Other public citations of this URL
may-8 round launch; liang's rmb 20b; ff1/ff2 cost figures; ~84% control
- ~130 ds / ~200 hf staff · the-decoder.com · 2025-03 (month) · original ID: src-hp-decoder-travel · Other public citations of this URL
~130 ds / ~200 hf staff; wsj us-travel warning
- first public model · github · 2023-11-02 (day) · original ID: src-hp-deepseekcoder-github · Other public citations of this URL
first public model; 1–33b; 2t tokens
- 7b/67b dense llms · github · 2023-11-29 (day) · original ID: src-hp-deepseekllm-github · Other public citations of this URL
7b/67b dense llms
- the deepseek-math repo — grpo · github · 2024-02-05 (day) · original ID: src-hp-deepseekmath-github · Other public citations of this URL
math-7b (arxiv 2402.03300); grpo; author list
- law-firm equity-structure analysis · dehehantong.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-dehehantong-equity · Other public citations of this URL
law-firm equity-structure analysis; 17 jul 2023, rmb 10m, liang >80% via chengpu/cheng'en
- ~150 staff; the gold-medal hiring rep · donga.com · 2025-02-11 (day) · original ID: src-hp-donga · Other public citations of this URL
~150 staff; gold-medal hiring rep; no kpis/titles; >bytedance pay
- chengdu apartment start · europeantech.news · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-europeantech · Other public citations of this URL
chengdu apartment start; "freelancer till 2013"; ~rmb60bn/$8bn since 2015 launch
- fire-flyer ai-hpc paper · arxiv.org · 2024-08 (month) · original ID: src-hp-fireflyer-paper · Other public citations of this URL
fire-flyer ai-hpc paper; 10k pcie a100; authors "deepseek ai" incl. wenfeng liang
- the flashmla repo · github · 2025-02 (month) · original ID: src-hp-flashmla · Other public citations of this URL
flashmla; v3.2 sparse-kernel updates
- the forbes liang profile: $39.8b · forbes · 2026-09 (month) · original ID: src-hp-forbes-liang · Other public citations of this URL
$39.8b; "$7.4b raised june 2026 at $52b"
- jan-27 selloff · fortune · 2025-01-27 (day) · original ID: src-hp-fortune · Other public citations of this URL
jan-27 selloff; app #1; andreessen quote
- alibaba collapse · gate.com · 2026-05-09 (day) · original ID: src-hp-gate-funding · Other public citations of this URL
alibaba collapse; ~$45b; tencent 20% declined; ic-fund lead possibility; hf 56.55% on 70b
- 64 quotes from investor call — purported leak · geopolitechs.org · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-geopolitechs-quotes · Other public citations of this URL
"64 quotes from investor call" — purported leak; unverified
- openai/ft evidence claim · gizmodo.com · 2025-01-29 (day) · original ID: src-hp-gizmodo-distill · Other public citations of this URL
openai/ft evidence claim; sacks "substantial evidence"; microsoft api flag
- corroboration of 10 departures · gogoai.xin · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-gogoai-departures · Other public citations of this URL
corroboration of 10 departures
- 10k a100 stockpile (2023 interview) · gpb.org · 2025-01-28 (day) · original ID: src-hp-gpb-sputnik · Other public citations of this URL
10k a100 stockpile (2023 interview); 2,000+ h800; export-control window
- huang–liang meeting · theguardian.com · 2025-04-17 (day) · original ID: src-hp-guardian-huang · Other public citations of this URL
huang–liang meeting; house committee letter to nvidia
- guos own page: ai researcher in deepseek, july 2023–april 2026 + core-contributor lists · guoday.github.io · 2026-09 (month) · original ID: src-hp-guoday · Other public citations of this URL
guo's own page: "ai researcher in deepseek, july 2023–april 2026" + core-contributor lists
- the hfai blog: the 10k-a100 cluster · high-flyer.cn · 2022 (year) · original ID: src-hp-hfai-blog · Other public citations of this URL
gtc-2022 blog: 10k-a100 cluster, ≥90% util, 3fs/hfreduce/hfai.nn, 50+ labs, 2.7m gpu-hrs