Liang Wenfeng, founder of AI startup DeepSeek, has gained celebrity status in China following a major market downturn in the US tech sector, largely resulting from the firm's disruption in the AI landscape. DeepSeek, founded as a side project and financed with $6 million, has garnered significant media attention, leading to Liang being praised as a 'genius' and 'AI hero of Guangdong.' The recent events underscored national pride, with discussions on social media celebrating Liang's achievements and highlighting a sense of local triumph amid global market challenges.
"DeepSeek's story is now that of a Chinese startup - which says it spent $6 million building a large language model rival to ChatGPT - shocking investors and AI scientists so much that US stocks like Nvidia lost a collective $1 trillion in on-paper value within a day."
"Viral threads on Weibo, China's version of X, regularly referenced Liang's hometown of Zhanjiang in Guangdong province, showing a strong sense of national pride among internet users."
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