{"id":147759,"date":"2025-02-03T03:19:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/deepseek-founder-liang-wenfeng-receives-a-heros-welcome-back-home-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T03:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:19:59","slug":"deepseek-founder-liang-wenfeng-receives-a-heros-welcome-back-home-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/deepseek-founder-liang-wenfeng-receives-a-heros-welcome-back-home-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng receives a hero\u2019s welcome back home | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeepSeek founder Lian Wenfeng is being hailed as a hero in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where he grew up and reportedly returned for the Lunar New Year, joined by bodyguards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wenfeng\u2014who, at 40, is already a billionaire due to his hedge fund, High-Flyer\u2014has gained even greater admiration from locals following DeepSeek\u2019s breakthrough research, which demonstrated that powerful AI models could be built with fewer Nvidia chips. The finding has significant implications, particularly in China, where access to the highest-end chips has been restricted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b3668e7f-ab8d-473a-9358-12421382cca9\" target=\"_blank\">tell the Financial Times<\/a> that Wenfeng was a \u201ctop student\u201d who loved comic books, was a math whiz, and came from a family of educators. According to one local, he also played some football. \u201cWe all grew up in this village,\u201d the resident tells the FT. \u201cWe\u2019re very proud of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite his rising star, Wenfeng has largely avoided public attention, frustrating those eager to learn more about him. Given the fate of high-flying Chinese CEOs like Jack Ma and Pony Ma \u2014 who faced government scrutiny after gaining too much visibility \u2014 don\u2019t be surprised if Wenfeng chooses to stay in the background.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/02\/deepseek-founder-liang-wenfeng-receives-a-heros-welcome-back-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepSeek founder Lian Wenfeng is being hailed as a hero in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where he grew up and reportedly returned for the Lunar New Year, joined by bodyguards. Wenfeng\u2014who, at 40, is already a billionaire due to his hedge fund, High-Flyer\u2014has gained even greater admiration from locals following DeepSeek\u2019s breakthrough research, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}