' Hey, Linas here! Every day, I break down 3 stories shaping the future of FinTech & Artificial Intelligence - plus the money movements and trends worth tracking. First time here' 397k+ FinTech and AI leaders get this daily. Join them: Liang Wenfeng has given roughly two interviews in his life. So when a 3-hour-44-minute recording of DeepSeek's founder walking his new shareholders through the entire playbook (pricing math, GPU counts, the Huawei bet, a step-by-step AGI roadmap) leaked out of a May 20, 2026 closed-door meeting, it instantly became the most complete picture available of the AI lab that erased $589 billion of Nvidia's NVDA 0.00%' market value in a single trading day in January 2025. The meeting was Liang's debrief for the incoming investors in DeepSeek's first external financing ever: roughly '50 billion (~$7.4 billion) at a post-money valuation of about $52 billion, per a regulatory filing surfaced by Caixin, from Tencent, CATL, JD.com and NetEase, with Liang...
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