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DeepSeek AI engineer slams Anthropic, OpenAI over ‘pacing’ calls, invokes Nazi Germany

DeepSeek engineer Liu Shengyu, who worked on the company's V4.1 models, publicly said he does not trust Anthropic or OpenAI to make cutting-edge AI "open and affordable," writing in a Monday social media post that he especially does not want Anthropic to master the most advanced artificial intelligence or AGI. The remarks came ahead of a September 24 meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump where AI safety may be discussed, amid a debate in China over US industry calls to "pace" AI development.

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DeepSeek AI engineer slams Anthropic, OpenAI over ‘pacing’ calls, invokes Nazi Germany
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Heated rhetoric highlights tensions over how quickly artificial intelligence should advance and who should shape its future amid mounting safety concerns

3-MIN READ3-MIN A DeepSeek engineer has issued a stark warning about the potential concentration of advanced artificial intelligence and resources in proprietary US developers Anthropic and OpenAI, intensifying a growing debate in China over calls by US industry leaders to

“pace” AI developmentamid safety concerns. The comments preceded an expected

meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trumpon September 24, where AI safety may emerge as a key point of dialogue as the two countries race for technological supremacy. Liu Shengyu, a DeepSeek engineer behind the company’s V4.1 models, said he did not trust Anthropic or OpenAI to make cutting-edge AI “open and affordable”, contrasting their closed-source approach with DeepSeek’s embrace of open-source models.

“I especially don’t want Anthropic to master the most advanced artificial intelligence or AGI,” he wrote in a social media post on Monday. AGI broadly refers to AI systems that match or surpass human-level intelligence.

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