[Claude Mythos Prompted Liang Wenfeng to Initiate Fundraising for DeepSeek] According to a report by The Information on July 1, Liang Wenfeng's decision to initiate fundraising for DeepSeek was directly influenced by witnessing Anthropic's Claude Mythos achieve extraordinary capabilities through massive computational power and data training. He realized that without resource reserves, it would be difficult to sustain operations. The timeline aligns closely with the release of the preview version of Claude Mythos by Anthropic in April this year and the first reports of DeepSeek's fundraising efforts. The total fundraising amount is $7.4 billion, with Liang Wenfeng personally contributing approximately 20 billion RMB (around $3 billion), accounting for two-fifths of the total and making it the largest single contribution. After the fundraising, DeepSeek announced plans to "at least double" the recruitment scale across all departments (currently about 300 employees) and established an employee stock ownership plan. The company is also accelerating its adaptation to Huawei chips. However, since its training and deployment systems were originally built around NVIDIA CUDA, rewriting the underlying software has resulted in a 15-month delay in releasing a new generation of models, causing it to miss the programming tool boom driven by Claude Code. Liang Wenfeng stated that programming tools and chatbots are merely transitional products in the evolution of AI. The company's strategy will continue to focus on open-source, low-cost solutions, and a commitment to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). He emphasized that "AI should not be controlled by a small group of people.