The success of the Chinese company Deepseek has shocked shock waves through the artificial intelligence industry -bringing the world's attention to the earlier -profile CEO.
According to his colleagues, Liang Wenfeng was not one for Roem or Fortuin, but had always hoped that he would recommend the respect of the technical world dominated by the US.
Now responsible for one of the largest shake-ups in the AI-Bol, it is safe to say that the entrepreneur has achieved exactly that.
Wenseng, who has just turned 40 by Chinese media accounts, launched his app in the United States on the same day as the inauguration of Donald Trump.
The Chatbot has since become the most downloaded free app in the country – with its sky -high popularity that has seen the value of its rival AI companies and to send shock waves by Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
His success in challenging the hegemony in the US in the sector has seen him greet a national hero in China and earned him an audience last week at the Prime Minister Li Qiang of the country.
The only AI boss who attended the meeting of the leading entrepreneurs of China shared his insights into the sector with the best officials of the country, who said that Beijing will concentrate on breakthroughs in important core technologies and advanced technologies. '
A mathematics 'nerd' who had a vision to create AI on human AI, Liang told his colleagues earlier in his career of his plans, but was confronted with skepticism.
'When we first met him, he was this very nerdy man with a terrible hairstyle that about building a 10,000 chip cluster to train his own models. We did not take him seriously, “one of his business partners told the Financial Times.
“He could not put his vision, other than to say: I want to build this, and it will be a game change.”
Displayed, Liang Wenfeng, the founder of the Chinese AI Startup Deepseek, is speaking at the symposium chaired by Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang on January 20, 2025
The son of two primary school teachers grew up in the port city of Zhanjiang and was a straight A-student with a passion for mathematics.
He taught himself Calculus outside the lessons while he was in high school, and his former teacher told reporters that he always made sure that he could balance 'work and rested, as if he could learn every subject without spending much time . ''
After studying mathematics at university level while he was still a young teenager, Liang then studied information technology at prestigious Zhejiang University in China.
The college is located in Hangzhou, a technology hub, but he started his career in Finance.
Only a few years after his graduation, he founded investment firm Jacobi, named after the German mathematician Carl Jacobi.
He started High-Flyer in 2015, who would become one of the best hedge funds in China and build him a fortune by using AI and algorithms to spot patterns that would influence the stock prices.
His team used Nvidia microCHips and it is said that he took his best people from the company to establish Deepseek in 2023.
In comparison with the rival chatgpt of Deepseek, the Chinese app produces reactions that are much closer to the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party
Liang rented many young graduates from the Chinese top schools and said in a recent interview that the selection criteria of his company were 'passion and curiosity'.
It is said that he is deeply involved in the daily running of the company and promotes free and cooperation culture, according to a former employee.
The hands-on CEO would have worked with his team until late at night, reports the Wall Street Journal reports, even sleeping in the office while hurrying to do projects.
His decision to make Deepseek's Code Open-Source was the key because he wanted to take the trend of major technology companies.
“For technologists, having others gives your work a great sense of satisfaction,” he said last year in an interview with 36kr. “Open Source is more a culture than a commercial behavior, and contributing to it deserves respect.”
Beijing has finally started to pay attention to the depth of Deepseek in recent weeks, whereby experts said that although it was not in the first instance 'the chosen one' of Chinese AI-start-ups, the rapid climb will see access to resources and as an example is stopped.
Now that Liang's plans for Deepseek are now bearing fruit, Chinese state media have celebrated the work of the company to show that even with limited computing power companies can 'create miracles'.
