Liang Wenfeng

DeepSeek A.I. Is a Win for China, but a Danger to Party Control

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DeepSeek A.I. Is a Win for China, but a Danger to Party Control

In 2017, China watched in awe — and shock — as AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program backed by Google, defeated a Chinese prodigy at a complex board game, Go. The decisive loss to a foreign computer program, which had similarly trounced a South Korean player, was a sort of Sputnik moment for China. That year, … Read more

Who Is Liang Wenfeng, the Founder of A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek?

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Who Is Liang Wenfeng, the Founder of A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek?

In technology, many entrepreneurs get only one defining act. Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, is already on his second. The engineer, described by colleagues as introspective, first made his mark in China’s investment world in the late 2010s, cofounding a hedge fund that used artificial-intelligence models to deliver strong returns and attracted billions of … Read more