People all over China celebrate the success of the domestic technological startup Deepseek and his founder, after the latest artificial intelligence model caused an earthquake in the silicon valley and on Wallstreet.
Deepseek is breaking in American shares overnight – read one of the popular Hashtags with dozens of millions of views on the Chinese social network Weibo. “Deepseek Tera Tera in Panic”, stands in the second, referring to the American Technology Giant, who has invested huge resources in the development of their own AI models.
More than a dozen hosts associated with this revolutionary technology was trend on Weibo at the beginning of this week, while Deepseek climbed on the top of the list of international shops applications, prestigling Openai-Jev Chatgpt on Monday.
Who is the man behind Deepseek?
The founder of Deepseek, Liang Wenfeng, was praised as a technological visionary that could help China create a culture of innovation capable of paring the silicon valley.
Engineer who has become an entrepreneur, and rarely gives interviews, is known for employing exclusively domestic talents and keeps their own open source models, enabling other companies and users to test and develop, index.hr.
Liang, which co-founder, aimed at Heg Fund High-Flyer Quant, founded Deepseek 2023. years. The company’s latest model, Deepseek R1, presented on January 20, almost may arise with its much more familiar American rivals, including Openai GPT-4, Metin Llam and Guglov Gemini.
However, according to the company’s claims, the construction of Deepseek R1 cost less than six million dollars – which is just a fraction of investing other competitors.
“Sputnik Moment”
Famous Technology Investor Mark Andresen called this model “Sputnik momakom”, while US President Donald Tramp stated that this “call for awakening” for America in its technological rivalry with China.
Technological domination, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, has become a key battlefield between the two forces, in recent years, in recent years, the access of Chinese companies that could accelerate the development of AI.
Analysts point out that more information is needed to verify Deepseek’s claims on the cost of developing their model and warn that the application operates within strict speech limitations and information imposed by the Chinese government. This means that the AS assistant will reflect the official Peking’s official position in Hong Kong, and will simply refuse to answer.
However, for many in China, the success of this technology – with Liang’s vision and ethics – represents a significant step forward in international competition.
– As much as possible natives, they can be demolished overnight – standing in one victorious comment on Weibou, who collected more than a thousand likes.
– Lian’s achievements can be called a national destiny – a second user wrote.
CNN contacted Lianga, Deepseek and High-Flyer Quant to comment.
“Changing the game rules”
Born in the 1980s as the son of a primary school teacher, Liang grew up in a small town in the southern Chinese Province of Guangdong. According to Chinese state media, he studied information and electronic engineering at the prestigious University of Jerging in the eastern Chinese Technology Center Hangzhou.
His early business associates, which in recent days interviewed the State Related Financial Media YICAI, described the Future Founder of Deepseek as a somewhat “Štreberski”, remembering his “terrible hairstyles” from the past.
According to the same source, Liang then spoke about his idea of training large AI models and “changing the rules of the game”, but no one took him seriously. Such endeavors were usually considered possible only for Chinese technological giants such as bytedance or alibaba.
Liang is 2015. year, less than ten years after the completion of the study, coordinates the Hedge fund High-Flyer Quant, directed to artificial intelligence, states in the state media reports. The company integrates and models of machine learning in its business, according to information from its website.
Basketball field size computer
At the same time, the company accumulated computer power in the AI Superračunar the size of the basketball field, becoming one of the leading Chinese companies in terms of computer strength – and the only one that was not a technological giant, according to the Paper State publication.
In 2023. Liang founded Deepseek with the aim of improving the general artificial intelligence – and, as it seems, changes in innovation culture in China.
– We often say that between China and the United States there is a space of one to two years, but the actual spacing is between originality and imitation. If that does not change, China will always be a follower – said Liang in a rare media interview for Chinese County Stocks 36kr in July last year.
The rise of Deepseek approximately coincides with the gradual calming of aggressive state repression over Chinese technological giants, which authorities have implemented in order to re-establish control over innovative private companies, in their eyes, became overpower.
But Beijing also attaches great importance to technological self-sufficiency, with the Chinese leaders in the last year promise to strengthen the country’s independence and strength in the field of technology – especially in the context of growing competition with the United States.
Liang seems to be in an interview for the 36DR last year for the difficulties causing American exports of technology, saying that the challenge for his company was not money, but a ban on access to “high-quality chips.”
However, he expressed optimism in terms of future competitiveness of China.
– When the Company enables real innovators to succeed, the collective way of thinking will change. We only need more concrete examples and processes – Liang said.
“We don’t do mediocre things”
The company, which has teams in Beijing and Hangzhou, remained relatively small, with only about 140 researchers and engineers, according to state media – which is significantly less than large companies in China and the United States leading the development of AI models.
On the official Wechat Profile of Deepseek stands: “We do not work mediocre things. We solve the biggest questions with the curiosity and vision that reaches far into the future.”
(Vijesti.ba)
