DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's doctrine #3：
- We target reasonable profits rather than profit maximization.
- After initially pricing high to manage demand， cutting prices by 75% fulfilled our main goal： making AI affordable and widely accessible.
- Low costs stem from efficient architectural design， allowing us to train larger models under compute constraints-unlike big tech， which relies on raw resource scale.
- Our price cuts pressure competitors， but lean operations come naturally to us； our API business attracts users organically without sales or support teams.
- Though currently profitable， shifting toward full commercial growth remains a distant priority.
- Commercialization will follow naturally when the market matures； DeepSeek is an original， pragmatic response to its era， not a copycat.
We summarized the key remarks from DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng during their investor meeting. The core topics include open-source strategy, cost reduction, a...