China celebrates Deepseek as an AI success in the tech race
China celebrates Deepseek as an AI success in the tech race
in all of China is celebrated by the success of the domestic technology startups deepseek and its founder. The company's latest AI model caused a sensation both in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street.
deepseek revolutionizes the technology industry
"Deepseek falls into a chaos overnight overnight," announced a popular hashtag with millions of millions on the Chinese social media platform Weibo. Another hashtag was: "Deepseek puts meta in panic", alluding to the US technology giants, who has strongly invested in the development of its own AI models.
This week Deepseek reached a top position in the international app store charts and overtook the American company Openai’s Chatgpt .
Liang Wenfeng - a visionary of technology
The founder of Deepseek, Liang Wenfeng, is seen as a technological visionary that could help China develop an innovation culture that is equal to Silicon Valley. The engineer, who has become an entrepreneur and rarely gives interviews, is known to hire only local talents and to provide his AI models as open source so that other companies or users can test and build on it.
LIANG, co-founder of the AI-oriented hedge fund High-flyer Quant, Deepseek founded in 2023. The latest model from Deepseek, which was unveiled on January 20, can almost rival the skills of its more well-known American competitors, such as Openaa’s GPT-4, Metas Llama and Google. However, the development cost less than $ 6 million, the company claims - a fraction of the investments made by these other companies.
a turning point in technology
The well-known tech investor Marc Andreessen described the model as a "sputnik moment", and former US President Donald Trump called the breakthrough on Monday a "wake-up call" for America in the competition with China. Technological dominance, especially in the area of AI, has developed into a key topic in the competition between the two great powers, with the United States in recent years accessing chinese companies to chips have restricted , which could enable a rapid AI development.
restrictions and challenges
Analysts believe that more information is required to check the statements from Deepseek about the pricing of its products. They point out that the app operates under the strict requirements for freedom of speech and information imposed by the Chinese government. This means that the answers of the AI assistant meet questions about events such as the Tiananm Massaker or the protests for democracy in Hong Kong on the Beijings line or an answer is completely refused.
Despite these challenges, many in China see the success of this technology - as well as linge vision and ethos for deepseek - as significant progress for the country in international competition.
The basics of deepseek
Liang was born in the 1980s as the son of a primary school teacher and grew up in a small town in the South Chinese province of Guangdong. He studied information technology and electrical engineering at the Zhejiang University, a renowned university in the East China Technology Center Hangzhou, as reported by the Chinese state media.
former business partners describe Liang as something "nerdig" and remember a "terrible haircut" that he used to wore. He spoke about his idea to train big AI models and "change the rules of the game". But nobody took him seriously, reports the medium of Yicai.
focus on innovation
In 2015,Liang founded his AI-oriented hedge fund high-flyer Quant, less than a decade after completing his conclusion. At the same time, the company built up a supercomputer in the size of a basketball field and was one of the top companies in China in terms of processing performance, without being a major technology giant.
In 2023, Liang Deepseek founded with the aim of promoting the field of general artificial intelligence and reforming China's innovation culture. "We often say that there is a one- or two-year lead between China and the USA, but the real gap lies between originality and imitation. If that doesn't change, China will always remain a successor," said Liang in a rare interview with the finance and technology platform 36kr last July.
The future of the AI at Deepseek
The company employs teams in Beijing and Hangzhou and remains small, with fewer than 140 researchers and engineers-a clear difference to the large companies in China and the USA, which have shaped the development of AI models. "We recruited talented graduates and doctoral students from top Chinese universities," said Liang.
actively advertised positions on the Deepseek website show that the company hires deeply learning research employees, engineers and user interface designers. The highest salaries for engineers are up to 90,000 yuan (approx. $ 12,400) per month. For comparison: The highest basic salaries for software engineers on Google are over $ 29,000.
A contribution to Deepseek's official Wechat account explains that the company is devoted to "researching the nature of AGI" or artificial general intelligence. "We do not do mediocre things and answer the biggest questions with curiosity and a far -reaching vision," added the contribution.