The future can arise anywhere. Even in Zhanjiang, an anodine city nestled on the coast of Canton. There was born in 1985 Liang Wenfenga young and gaphous young man, Anodine only in appearance. Here is that his extraordinary creation, the Deepseek artificial intelligence, shakes the world these days as a renewed “sputnik moment”, revealing that the technological career between the two great superpowers, China and the United States, is actually much more disputed to what provided.
From Zhanjiang to Zhejiang. He mathematical talent De Liang opened the doors of this prestigious provincial university, where he graduated in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications Before completing a master’s degree in Information Engineering. During its university stage, this mathematical talent was refined in interest in automation applied to investments.
From Zhejiang to Huanfang, High-Flyer in English. This is what Liang called the company that in 2015 co -founded with two career companions, Xu Jin and Zheng Dawei. Its purpose was to apply the use of automatic learning algorithms to the Financial sector The result? A revolution: funds managed worth 7,600 million euros and 160 employees. Liang, however, was always considered more engineer than investor.
From high-flyer a Deepseek. The firm continued advancing in its research on artificial intelligence (AI), even treasure more than 10,000 NVIDIA processing units, capable of training large language models (LLM). In April 2023, the management team announced its plans to expand its activities and dedicate resources to “explore the essence of the IGeneral Artificial NTerligence», Defined by OpenAI as an autonomous system capable of overcoming the cognitive abilities of human beings in most activities with economic value. A month later, High-Flyer created a new subsidiary: Deepseek.
And Deepseek, to the world. The impact came on January 20, with the presentation of its R1 model. This has managed to match US platforms despite have less semiconductors and lower quality, as well as an official cost of 5.6 million dollars compared to current general estimates, encrypted between $ 100 and 1,000 million. Its modest and effective appearance, even if they persist doubts regarding the veracity of its resources, has caused a stock market correction of planetary magnitudes, particularly before the American Stargate Project and its investments worth $ 500,000 million proclaimed last week.
The reliability of Deepseek, however, has been questioned to verify that its artificial intelligence operates within the limits imposed by Chinese censorship. The system refuses to provide information on sensitive issues for the regime, such as Tiananmen’s killing. Now, in his transparent entrails there is no lie. The company presents its models with open source, which allows its adaptation in the hands of other developers, thus accelerating innovation globally.
Geopolitical tension
Liang’s clairvoyance has not gone unnoticed by the Communist Party. The still thirty -year -old was invited that same January 20 to expose his views at the watchful eye of the Prime Minister, Li Qiang. Deepseek’s emergence has not only displaced competition on the global scene, but also borders inside. In particular a Baidua technological giant owner of the most popular search engine, which with its Ernie seemed to lead Chinese artificial intelligence as it already does with autonomous cars.
Its executive director, Robin Li, starred last year a similar event. He then assured that Chinese companies would never be able to replicate the success of OpenAI and its chatgpt, and therefore should focus on exploiting the commercial possibilities of existing models.
Liang, on the other hand, has a more ambitious speech. During an interview with the Chinese publication ‘Waves’ in 2023, one of his few appearances in the media to date, defended that “Chinese artificial intelligence It can’t always be behind. We often say that there is a distance of one or two years between China and the United States, but the authentic distance is one that mediates between originality and imitation ».
A competition that on the other side of the Pacific is also determined to win – the European Union is neither expected. The rivalry between both powers extends to new areas, and the technological one represents one of the most explicit for years. The glowing success of Deepseek, in fact, enhance doubts regarding the export restrictions of advanced semiconductors imposed by the White House. Are they useful? Do they fail? By bridgeables or by generating the opposite effect, encouraging innovation?
Be that as it may, Liang himself would have recognized during his conversation with the prime minister that these sanctions constituted A congestion point For the Chinese industry, according to the ‘Wall Street Journal’. A contextual note, in any case, to its optimistic speech, knowing that it does not matter so where the race begins as it ends.
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