Leaked Liang Wenfeng interview: Anthropic's lead is cyclical, Chinese AI will be systemically cheaper
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-25
An X user shares what appears to be an interview excerpt from DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng (source unverified), commenting that "Chinese AI will be cheaper" is only a transient stage.
- Anthropic's lead over OpenAI is cyclical: All three labs (Anthropic/OpenAI/Google) are strong and will alternate in the lead; Anthropic's Code Agent edge isn't crushing — about half of his company thinks OpenAI is better.
- Anthropic is the most efficient of the three: spends and burns the least money.
- China's role in the global AI division of labor: largest production capacity including chips and electricity; Chinese AI will be one of the "three bodies," and its cheapness will be systemic, like other Chinese industries.
- Personal strategy: maximize return at the moment — building products is not the highest-return thing now, implying AGI comes first.
The reposter believes cheapness is just a transitional stage and that Wenfeng will try his best to make it real.
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