When 40-year-old Liang Wenfeng, the founder of the last star of him in the world, Deepseek, returned to his village at home in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong for Lunar New Year celebrations, he was Given the welcome of a hero.
village honored him With a red flag that said, “Warm congratulations to become the pride of his hometown,” according to a translated version of the flag.
The popularity of Wenfeng is partly because of his onset of him, Deepseek, who Rattled Stocks Tech Stocks when it grew up on top of app stores last month (it's still peak IPhone graphs) after claiming that his latest model of he matches or exceeded him by industry leaders such as Openai, Anthropic and Google – but with a cost.
While he from the beginnings as anthropic can costs $ 100m To develop, Deepseek claims her -in costs less than $ 6 million for the same functionality.
Liang Wenfeng. Photo from VCG/VCG through Getty Images
Wenfeng was already popular in Guangdong before Deepseek. He became a billionaire after setting up the High-Fly's Defense Fund in 2015, which exceeded 100 billion yuan (close to $ 14 billion) in active under management by 2021. It is now worth at least $ 1 billion, according to stale.
The inhabitants of his hometown told the Times Financial As a child he was a “senior student” who read comics books and excelled in mathematics.
“We all raised in this village,” one resident told the publication. “We're very proud of it.”
Who is Liang Wenfeng?
Wenfeng was born in 1985 and was a direct student at school, for Wall Street Journal.
Before establishing Deepseek, Wenfeng attended an education in engineering. By New York TimesHe has a technical backdrop in his engineering and wrote his 2010 thesis to improve his supervision systems at Zhejiang University, a public university in Hangzhou, China. He graduated in Zhejiang with a master's degree in Information and Communication Engineering.
Wenfeng founded the High Fly-Fly Defense Fund in June 2015 at the age of 30, according to Chinese publication QQ.com. He and his team were determined to use mathematics and he to deliver strong results to customers.
Experienced High-Fly Regulatory pressures from 2019 to 2023, making the team focus more on it as a side project and build computing systems with Nvidia graphics cards. Wenfeng officially founded Deepseek in July 2023. The company he became more in focus on her as High-Flyer had to close her primary investment product in February 2024 for Times.
In one 2023 interview With the publication of 36kr Chinese technology, Wenfeng said Deepseek's goal was general artificial intelligence, or one that transcends human cognitive abilities. He also said the beginnings of he were well positioned to compete with companies created.
“The market is changing,” Wenfeng to the publication told a Translated version in English of his remarks, which were originally made in Chinese. “True decisive force is often not some rules and ready -made conditions, but the ability to adapt and adapt to changes.”