Who is behind DeepSeek? The Chinese artificial intelligence that shakes ChatGPT and Google

26 Feb Who is behind DeepSeek? The Chinese artificial intelligence that shakes ChatGPT and Google

Artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, and there are now several options available for people to use for their information needs.

Among the first tools of this kind that became known worldwide for online use are ChatGPT and Bard. However, this field has continued to evolve, and China has now created an AI that is gaining traction: ‘DeepSeek.’

‘DeepSeek’ operates with an open-source model, competing with technical efficiency while challenging the closed approach and high hardware investments, according to the portal ‘Business Insider.’

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Behind this new option is Liang Wenfeng, a 40-year-old entrepreneur born in the southeastern province of Guangdong, who left his home to study electronics in the eastern region of Zhejiang.

Wenfeng fell in love with AI, leading him to develop a different vision, particularly in capturing and interpreting information through images and working on more complex topics such as automation in stock market investments.

In 2015, as co-founder of the company High-Flyer Quant, he turned the firm into one of China’s largest hedge funds. In just four years, he multiplied its assets more than tenfold, from 1 billion yuan in 2016—equivalent to more than 578 billion Colombian pesos—to over 5 trillion Colombian pesos in 2019, according to the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post.

Since 2023, the entrepreneur has been injecting resources into this new project, which is described as a “leading infrastructure in artificial intelligence.”

Before the United States imposed a restriction on the sale of chips to China, the entrepreneur acquired more than 10,000 Nvidia H800 processors, allowing his V3 and R1 models to become some of the most downloaded today, matching those of OpenAI.

Additionally, it has been revealed that with fewer resources and less time, they are already close to surpassing some of OpenAI’s benchmarks.

A situation that deepens the decline in the use of mainstream AIs like ChatGPT and OpenAI is the recent plunge in their stock prices. Furthermore, Liang told The China Academy that the sudden preference for his AI “happened by chance”: “We never intended to be disruptive.”

Prominent U.S. figures such as Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and former President Donald Trump have expressed feeling “hurt” by the rise in the use of this AI. However, they also acknowledge that its progress is impressive and serves as a wake-up call for the country’s tech giants.