The elusive founder of disruptive Chinese AI company DeepSeek has been spotted attending a Beijing conference, one week after snubbing a global AI summit in Paris.
Liang Wenfeng was seen publicly for the first time since the company’s AI model upended the tech industry.
Up until DeepSeek’s unveiling, the US was thought to hold the global monopoly on artificial intelligence, with every top 10 AI company in the world being based in the States.
But when DeepSeek revealed a powerful model that was significantly cheaper to run than OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it threw that monopoly into question.
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The share prices of leading AI chipmaker Nvidia plummeted, as did those of Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Alphabet.
Despite causing chaos in the West, however, Mr Wengfeng didn’t attend a global summit on AI in Paris last week.
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“Should we try as hard as we absolutely can [to work with them]? Yes,” he said.
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