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How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI
When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.
US export controls have severely curtailed the ability of Chinese tech firms to compete on AI in the Western way—that is, infinitely scaling up by buying more chips and training for a longer period of time. WIRED talked to experts on China’s AI industry and read detailed interviews with DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng to piece together the story behind the firm’s meteoric rise. Then, in 2023, Liang, who has a master's degree in computer science, decided to pour the fund’s resources into a new company called DeepSeek that would build its own cutting-edge models—and hopefully develop artificial general intelligence.
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