Fortune January 31, 2025
- DeepSeek’s meteoric rise has unsettled American AI rivals, powered by CEO Liang Wenfeng’s unconventional leadership—a sharp departure from the Silicon Valley norm—and a bet on Gen Z talent.
DeepSeek’s sudden rise to the top of the AI food chain—and Apple’s app store, leaving rival ChatGPT in the dust—came as a surprise to many. The company’s secret sauce may be running in the opposite direction as Silicon Valley.
Its success is even more fascinating, knowing that the company is fairly new to the AI industry: In 2023, CEO Liang Wenfeng founded the business, funnelling his money into AI chips and assembling a dream-team to drive a Chinese AI product that could finally confront the likes of OpenAI. Less...
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