Eduardo Baptista
Liang Wenfeng, the founder of Beijing (Reuters) -39 -year -old Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, has become the face of the Chinese technology industry in a few weeks, and hopes to overcome the export control of continuously gaze export control twisted. USA.
Liang kept a very low state until January 20, when he was one of the nine people, he asked to give a speech at a closed -door seminar hosted by Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang.
Last year and 2023, he conducted two rare media interviews with the wave of Chinese media and media, but most of them were far from public attention. Deepseek did not respond to the interview request.
Pictures and videos of CCTV of China Broadcasting Corporation show that at the seminar, the younger generation of younger appearances and gray -haired scholars, officials and state -owned enterprise group sitting on his side.
However, LIANG was invited to share his views on Chinese government policies, focusing on Beijing's recognition of Deepseek's role in potentially improving the global AI order, which is beneficial to China.
DeepSeek launched a free AI assistant last week, which said that the company used a small part of the current service cost to trigger the selling of global technology stocks.
Last year, Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, delivered a speech at a similar seminar hosted by the Chinese Prime Minister. Li, who announced China's first competitor in March 2023, said that in the same year, China will never re -create the success of Microsoft Bask Bask Openai. Chinese companies should focus on applying existing AI models to business purposes.
Under the leadership of LIANG, Deepseek deliberately avoided application construction. Instead, it focuses on the research talents and resources on the creation of matching or better OpenAI models.
Liang's method stands out in the Chinese technology industry. The industry is accustomed to innovation from abroad, from smartphone applications to electric vehicles, and quickly expand them, usually much faster than the first invention countries.
Liang said: "Chinese artificial intelligence cannot be paid forever. We often say that there is a gap between Chinese artificial intelligence and the United States for one or two years, but the real gap is the difference between originality and imitation." During the waves.
Liang's interview showed that people believe that China's technology industry has reached a crossroads and lacks confidence, but it is not the capital required for basic research and development breakthroughs.
"Curious and creative desire"
He said in July: "In the past three decades, (China's technology industry) only emphasized money and ignored innovation. Innovation is not only driven by business, but also needs curiosity and creative desire."
Deepseek has decided to open up all its models, which is different from American competitors Openai. In the open source model, the basic code can be used publicly, and any developer can be used and modified at will.
The interview with Liang showed that he had purchased the open source culture inside the American technology, which was one of the reasons for the advantages of Silicon Valley in Silicon Valley than China Silicon Valley.
"Even if OPENAI is closed, it cannot prevent others from catching up ... Open source is like a cultural practice, not a kind of business practice ... The company that does this will have soft power."
Liang grew up in Guangdong in the southern city. In the 1980s and 1990s, the country led market capitalism. Liang said, at that time he was surrounded by people who valued business learning, but he was more inclined to academically.
He will continue to enter school at the age of 17, and before studying for a master's degree in information and communication engineering, he has maintained electronics and communication engineering and completed in 2010.
Liang then created a quantitative hedge fund in 2015, which uses complex mathematical algorithms for transactions instead of human analysis.
By the end of 2021, the fund's investment portfolio exceeded 100 billion yuan ($ 13.79 billion), but in April 2023, it announced on its WeChat account that it will expand its investment industry beyond the resources of the investment industry. Concentrate resources to "explore the essence of AGI". Deepseek was created a month later.
Openai defines AGI (artificial intelligence) as a human autonomy system that surpasses human beings in most economically valuable tasks.
DeepSeek's employees are mainly graduates and doctoral students from top universities in China. LIANG believes that they tend to work for Deepseek because it is dealing with the biggest challenges in AI.
He said in July: "What attracted the best talents was to solve the most difficult problems in the world."
"Our goal is still Aji."
($ 1 = 7.2507 Chinese RMB)
(Eduardo Baptista Report; Edit of Sharon Singleton)