The DeepSeek Leak: Why Infrastructure Secrets Matter More Than Model Weights The artificial intelligence ecosystem was recently rattled by reports that Liang Wenfeng, the low-profile CEO of DeepSeek, was deeply unsettled by an internal leak. To the casual observer, panic from the leader of an "open-weights" pioneer over leaked information seems paradoxical. If a company’s business model is built on releasing state-of-the-art models like DeepSeek-V3 and R1 to the public, what secrets are left...