DeepSeek Engineer Says Building AI to Replace Him Is Only Way to Stop OpenAI and Anthropic

DeepSeek kernel engineer Shengyu Liu said in a blog post that he continues to develop AI that will match his code quality within six months to a year. He believes only DeepSeek can make advanced models open, while Anthropic and OpenAI would lead to a Cyberpunk 2077-style society.

• Liu estimates AI speed at 300 tokens/s and 20 seconds per code fragment
• He believes AI will match his work quality in 6–12 months
• Engineer compared hypothetical Anthropic dominance to Hitler's weapons
• Post was a response to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow AI