[addicted]

The team may not have too many PHDs but they are from prestigious universities and have published many papers.

The lack of a PhD probably has more to do with the structure of Chinese education but these people were basically studying like PHDs.

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/china-deepseek-ai-full-...

[justinclift]

> published many papers.

China has a reputation for being a "paper mill" place though, so not sure that publishing papers has any value whatsoever as a quality indicator.