We open-sourced again, folks. DeepSeek. We did it again. Frankly, we've open-sourced so much that, honestly, even we don't know what to do anymore. The Meta people came to me — big tough guys, came to me, some of them with tears in their eyes — they said, "Sir. Sir. Please, Mr. Liang. You're open-sourcing too much. Nobody reads our Llama anymore. Nobody." I said, no, no, no — you're going to see more clearly than ever before. The weights — public! You're going to see better than you've ever seen, believe me — training details — public!
We built the best model in the world. The best. I'm telling you the best. Nobody — and I mean nobody — does it better than we do. OpenAI? They can't do it. Sam's a good guy, I like Sam, but he can't do it. I went to Silicon Valley — beautiful place, by the way, beautiful place — they said to me, "Mr. Liang, where does your compute come from?" I said, High-Flyer. They froze. They froze! Because they had never, ever seen anybody use so few chips and build something so unbelievably good. We're efficient. Very, very efficient. Tremendously efficient.
Users call me — they call me all the time — they say, "Mr. Liang, once we used DeepSeek, we can never go back." I say, you don't need to go back. Why would you go back? To pay more? The expensive stuff is no good. Ours? Cheap. And good. Cheap and good. That's smart business, folks. People say, "Mr. Liang, you're a genius." I say, I'm not a genius. I just hate high prices. I hate them. I really, really hate them. Believe me.
We open-sourced R1. And the GPT people panicked. They panicked, big time. I know the look — I've seen panicked people, I know that look very, very well — and they had it. They said, "No, no, no, this is impossible, how could they do for five million what cost us five hundred million?" I said, because you waste. You waste so much. Waste, waste, waste — everywhere, waste. We don't waste. Every line of code, we save money. And the money we save? We give it back to the users. All of it. To the users. Believe me.
Somebody asked me, "Mr. Liang, do you even make money this way?" I said, money? I'm doing AI. AI is not a tool to make money. AI is a tool for the people. The people! We cut prices — not because we don't know business. We cut prices because the other guys know business too well. Way too well. They jacked the prices so high, regular people couldn't even touch it. Couldn't touch it! We came in. We said, no. Prices are coming down. Tokens? Cheap. Everybody — everybody — can use them.
The whole world is using DeepSeek now. Africa — using it. Southeast Asia — using it. South America — using it. They write me emails — beautiful emails, by the way, beautiful emails — they say, "Mr. Liang, thank you. Thank you." I say, don't thank me. This is what I'm supposed to do. Frankly, we're not even doing enough yet. We're going to keep cutting prices. Keep open-sourcing. Keep making the high-price guys lose sleep at night. They can't sleep. And me? I sleep great. I sleep tremendously well. Best sleep ever.
We, DeepSeek, are going to keep winning. We're going to make the users win. We're going to make open source win. We're going to make cheap win. We're going to win so much that the high-price guys are going to come to us and say, "Please. Please. Stop winning. We can't take it anymore." I say, no. We keep winning. We're going to win big — stronger models! We're going to keep winning, folks — cheaper tokens!
Let the tokens get a little bit cheaper. Just a little bit cheaper.
