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Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race


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And Jack Clark, former policy head at OpenAI and co-founder of Anthropic, believes DeepSeek “hired a group of unfathomable geniuses” 雇佣了一批高深莫测的奇才, adding that large models made in China “will be as much of a force to be reckoned with as drones and electric cars” 将和无人机、电动汽车一样,成为不容忽视的力量. And unlike many quant fund founders — who have overseas hedge-fund experience and physics or mathematics degrees — Liang Wenfeng has always maintained a local background: in his early years, he studied artificial intelligence at Zhejiang University’s Department of Electrical Engineering. [ Jordan: really reminiscent of how Alec Radford’s early contribution to the GPT series and speaks to the broader thesis we’ve argued in the past on ChinaTalk that algorithmic innovation is fundamentally different from pushing the technological frontier in something like semiconductor fabrication.

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