- China’s Internet is in love with Liang Wenfeng after his signature, Deepseek, sparked a riot of him in SH.BA
- His explosion of Stardom has largely emerged from the back of a subsequent market route in the SH.BA
- Local media are now calling Liang a “genius”, a “Hero of Guangdong” and a “great god”.
While American technology shares landed Monday by Hype for Chinese start Deepseek, the founder of the company is being praised as a hero at home.
Hedge fund manager Liang Wenfeng, who started the artificial intelligence firm as a side project in 2023, went viral to Chinese social media on Tuesday mainly because of the road.
The effectiveness of Deepseek’s cost was already making waves in the technology industry over the past two weeks, but it was the latest market reaction that pushed Liang to the Internet star in China.
Deepseek’s story is now that of a Chinese start-which says he spent $ 6 million by building a rival of a large model in shocking chatgpt-investors and scientists so much that American shares like Nvidia lost a 1 trillion collective dollar in the value of the paper within a day in a day in a day.
In a period of national pride, viral themes in Weibo, China’s X version, referred regularly to Liangut Zhanjiang’s hometown in Guangdong province.
“Deepseek is a megahit: Internet users move about three heroes of Guangdong,” said a main thread with 18 million views, since Tuesday morning Beijing time.
Liang was ranked as one of those “heroes”, along with Moonshot founder, Yang Zhili and the scientist of the Kaimi, who is the author of one of the most cited letters for teaching machinery.
In particular, China’s social media is very moderate, making it difficult to determine the full area of discussion on each particular topic. However, this can also provide an overview of rhetoric and topics that are encouraged or allowed in its internet spaces.
Another major discussion on Weibo, with more than 52 million views, predicted Liang’s return to his hometown for the Lunar New Year, which begins on Wednesday. Yangcheng Evening News, a Guangdong -based regional newspaper, praised Liang as a “genius” and “great foreign god”.
“Let us want him to create more miracles,” the newspaper wrote.
“The country has to protect it! Seriously,” wrote a popular Shanghai -based blogger with 2.2 million followers.
Liang was also noted among some councilors who gave suggestions to Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang in a symposium last week in Beijing’s direction in him.
Having LI’s ear can be important because the prime minister is the senior official responsible for implementing the executive decisions of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Time Magazine, for example, described it as COO XI on the list of the 100 most influential people for 2024.
But the presence of Deepseek founder in the symposium gained more online attention due to Liang’s age: the 40-year-old was filmed sitting among a panel of visible men.
“Like young people after 85 from Zhanjiang ‘surprised’ the world,” said a viral thread for him. Generations are popular as “after 1990” or “after 1980” in China, compared to “Millennium” or “General Z. “
Liang, who grew up in the 1980s in Guangdong, and his firm shook the technology space earlier this month with the release of their Flag Model, R1, which experts say is sophisticated enough to compete with chatgpt.
Deepseek said he used only 2,000 Nvidia H800 chips to train R1, meaning it spent about $ 6 million – a cost of dwarf from the billions of invested by US technology giants.
While at the time of the press, the Deepseek app hit the number 1 place in the best apps apps table.
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