High Flyer bought GPUs aggressively before their purpose for AI was widely known: 100 cards in 2015, 1,000 in 2019, 10,000 by 2021. Liang says this purchasing was driven by curiosity.

factualpending

Speaker

Unidentified Speaker — DeepSeek's Invisible Founder Just Talked for 4 Hours. It Le… [BcKQk0NeBV0]

Evidence Quote

Along the way, the fund kept buying GPUs long before anyone knew what for. 100 cards in 2015, 1,000 in 2019, 10,000 by 2021. He says it was curiosity.

Source

DeepSeek's Invisible Founder Just Talked for 4 Hours. It Leaked.Squintist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:15:41 PM

My Notes

Loading notes...