The Mastermind Behind DeepSeek: Shaking Up the Tech Giants
When Liang Wenfeng, the mastermind behind the DeepSeek application, first met with his partners, he seemed like an extremely passionate young man, with poor hair styling, talking about building a cluster of 10,000 chips to train his own models, as one partner told “Financial Times”.
Back in 2021, before Biden’s export restrictions on semiconductors to China, Liang started purchasing thousands of Nvidia chips as part of an AI side project, which his friends viewed as a quirky hobby unlikely to lead to anything substantial.
A partner added that they didn’t take him seriously at first since he couldn’t articulate his vision beyond saying, “I want to build this, and it will be a game-changer.” They thought back then that such an endeavor could only be accomplished by giants like ByteDance or Alibaba, according to an NDTV report cited by “Al Arabiya Business”.
DeepSeek was founded at the end of 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, a Chinese hedge fund manager, and soon Liang became a prominent figure in the AI field, with some comparing him to Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI.
According to “Fortune” magazine, DeepSeek’s founder doesn’t fit the typical mold of AI innovators. Unlike Altman, Liang wasn’t a traditional Silicon Valley entrepreneur; he came from the world of finance. After graduating from Zhejiang University, he co-founded the quantitative hedge fund “High Flyer” in 2015, where he used AI in trading strategies to predict market trends and make investment decisions.
His hedge fund focuses on AI research and development, which has propelled DeepSeek towards rapid success.
The Chinese AI bot DeepSeek has caused a stir in Silicon Valley, astonishing investors and experts with
its capability to compete with Western counterparts efficiently and at a much lower cost. This
revolutionary AI model outperforms notable players like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude AI, topping
Apple’s app store charts and surpassing ChatGPT’s popularity, causing ripples in the U.S. stock market.
This has attracted significant attention in the tech world, especially after the company revealed its
shockingly low operating costs.
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