(CLO) Liang Wenfeng, founder and CEO of DeepSeek, was warmly welcomed when he returned to his hometown of Mililing, in the port city of Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, during the Lunar New Year.
Local media and social media circulated images of a red banner welcoming him, calling him "the pride of the homeland" for his globally influential contributions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
DeepSeek founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng. Photo: Weibo
Liang’s visit took place on the eve of the Lunar New Year, and villagers were excited to welcome him back, as DeepSeek was taking the tech world by storm with its breakthroughs in AI.
DeepSeek has developed advanced AI models at a fraction of the cost of US rivals like OpenAI, Google and Meta, despite increasingly tight US restrictions on China's tech industry.
Liang’s hometown has become a domestic tourist attraction due to its connection to DeepSeek. Locals proudly talk about his outstanding talent from a young age. One unnamed resident shared that Liang was so smart that he even taught himself high school math while still in middle school.
A red banner hangs on the wall praising "hometown pride" Liang Wenfeng for bringing honor to Mililing village in Zhanjiang, a port city in southern Guangdong province. Photo: Weibo
Liang's journey in the tech world began when he studied at Zhejiang University from 2002 to 2010, where he developed a passion for applying machine learning to quantitative trading.
In 2015, he founded High-Flyer Quant, a company that uses deep learning algorithms to run one of China's largest quantitative hedge funds. In 2023, High-Flyer Quant spun off DeepSeek into an independent company focused entirely on AI.
Liang's success has led many to compare him to Jim Simons, the American mathematician and legendary quantitative hedge fund manager. Journalist Gregory Zuckerman, author of The Man Who Solved the Market, sees many similarities between the two and says Liang drew inspiration from Simons.
Liang even wrote a preface for the Chinese version of the book, stressing that the work "resolves many mysteries and offers valuable lessons."
Liang also shared that whenever he faced a challenge at work, he remembered Simons' quote: "There must be a way to model prices." This philosophy became his guiding principle on the journey of developing AI technology and quantitative finance, helping DeepSeek achieve its position today.
Ngoc Anh (according to Yangcheng Evening News, Business Insider, SCMP)
Source: https://www.congluan.vn/nha-sang-lap-deepseek-ve-que-an-tet-duoc-vinh-danh-nhu-nguoi-hung-post332592.html
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