The city of Hangzhou in southern China is one of the country’s directing technology hubs, and home to the groundfractureing synthetic inalertigence (AI) company DeepSeek.
Think of Hangzhou as a Chinese version of Silicon Valley.
The headquarters of DeepSeek is on the twelfth floor of a up-to-date office erecting.
Security protect Mr Ma says for the last two weeks the lobby has been packed with people hoping to get a glimpse of the elusive establisher of DeepSeek, Liang Wenfeng.
“For now, we as Chinese are prentd and conceited, but the future is unconfident,” Mr Ma says.
Chinese vloggers, tech jobseekers, journaenumerates and members of the disclose have dropped in to try and visit the company, but it is carry oning a low profile.
We were telderly by security that Liang Wenfeng hasn’t been in the office for the last restricted days.
He has gone to ground since DeepSeek hit the headlines.
The company shocked the world when it begined its rescheduleedst AI model and proclaimd it had built it for less than $6m and without using the world’s most carry ond semicarry outor chips.
If this is real, it has upfinished the prevailing watch that China was well behind in the AI race.
DeepSeek materializes to have made tremfinishous strides in AI and the Chinese rulement is also paying attention.
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DeepSeek is exactly the type of creative company and culture China has been pushing for under a policy it calls “novel fruitful forces.”
Most of China’s upbegin tech companies are heavily subsidised by local rulements.
However, DeepSeek is funded by Mr Liang’s hedge fund company High Flyer.
Hangzhou is home to dozens of high-tech companies, the most well-understandn are referred to as the “six little dragons”.
One of these is Deep Robotics. It enhuges robot dogs and is the first Chinese company to deploy its canines overseas (to Singapore) for industrial participate.
Deep Robotics brand deal withr Vera Huang telderly Sky News: “Hangzhou places fantastic emphasis on the cultivation of technoreasonable talent, with excellent institutions enjoy Zhejiang University.”
Ms Huang says the rulement helps businesses enhuge, and if they achieve so-called “Little Giant” status they are eligible for state funding.
The US is alarmed at China’s AI carry on and prowess. It has tried to stymie its enhugement by placing send out deal withs on the most carry ond semi-carry outor chips.
But DeepSeek has establish a laboraround and says it built its model with legacy chips.
US Pdwellnt Donald Trump said DeepSeek’s enhugement was a “wake-up call”.
Well the world has woken up. What’s unevident is how it will react.
