DeepSeek is shaking up the world’s technology scene and is seen as a hero by many Chinese.
According to CNN, the hashtag “DeepSeek overturned the stock market overnight” has attracted tens of millions of views on Weibo in China in recent days. In addition, dozens of other related hashtags have also trended after DeepSeek topped the application rankings in many markets, surpassing Open AI’s ChatGPT.
In particular, Liang Wenfeng (born in 1985), the founder behind DeepSeek, is being praised by many Chinese people as having a vision, helping the country of a billion people open up a new wave of technology that can compete with Silicon Valley.
In fact, the emergence of AI models with many outstanding advantages from DeepSeek not only shocked the technology world but also changed the US stock market, causing the “giant” Nvidia to lose about 600 billion USD on January 27.
Marc Andreessen, a famous technology investor, praised this as a “Sutnik moment”. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump also spoke about DeepSeek’s success and called it a new breakthrough, a wake-up call for the US industry.
Reuters also recently cited an internal source saying that US President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met on January 31 at the White House to discuss DeepSeek , a startup whose AI models are “shaking” the technology world. According to this source, the two discussed tightening the export of AI chips. Notably, President Trump asked if the appearance of DeepSeek means that US companies do not have to spend a lot of money to build a low-cost AI solution.
US President Donald Trump (right) and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are said to have secretly met to discuss DeepSeek. Photo: Reuters
In fact, technological dominance, especially in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), has become a major battleground between the US and China. In recent years, the US has also restricted Chinese companies’ access to advanced chip technology to stifle the country’s AI development.
Therefore, according to many Chinese people, Mr. Liang Wenfeng’s success, vision and spirit towards DeepSeek have marked a significant step forward for this country in the competitive international arena.
Some Weibo users even expressed: “The achievements of Mr. Liang Wenfeng can be called the destiny of the nation.”
“DeepSeek does not do trivial work”
Mr. Liang Wenfeng is the founder of DeepSeek. Photo: SCMP
DeepSeek, the startup that is currently making waves, was founded in 2023. Notably, the company’s latest model, DeepSeek R1, launched on January 20, is considered to be on par with famous American competitors, including OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama, and Google’s Gemini. DeepSeek claims that it cost less than $6 million to build, a fraction of the “huge” investments from other technology companies.
DeepSeek currently has offices in Beijing and Hangzhou (Zhejiang Province), with nearly 140 researchers and engineers. This number of personnel is far behind that of large companies in China and the US in the field of AI. Notably, DeepSeek’s employees are all recruited domestically. Among them, many are recent graduates or postgraduates from top universities in China.
“The top 50 talents may not be in China. But we can create them ourselves. Innovation first needs confidence. And this confidence is often more evident in young people,” DeepSeek’s founder Liang told Chinese media. He added that jobs at DeepSeek are divided according to each person’s strengths.
According to MIT Technology Review, Zihan Wang, a former DeepSeek employee who is currently studying in the US, said that Chinese startups offer luxuries that few new graduates have, such as access to computing resources, freedom to experiment…
Although newly launched, DeepSeek is not inferior to ChatGPT. Photo: Cloudbooklet
A post on DeepSeek’s Wechat revealed that the company’s goal is to discover the essence of artificial general intelligence (AGI). The post reads: ” We do not do trivial things and answer the biggest questions with curiosity and foresight .”
DeepSeek is currently hiring deep learning researchers, engineers, and user interface designers. The highest-paying engineering positions pay 90,000 yuan ($12,400) a month. By comparison, Google’s software engineer salary is around $29,000.
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