DeepSeek's open-source models challenge U.S. tech dominance Liang says DeepSeek's focus on research different from most Chinese tech firms China's AI industry cannot forever follow the United States,

Liang had kept an extremely low profile until Jan. 20, when he was one of nine individuals asked to give a speech at a closed-door symposium hosted by China's Premier Li Qiang. He gave two rare media interviews to Chinese media outlet Waves last year and in 2023,

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, has Silicon Valley reeling with its R1 reasoning model, which it claims uses far less computing power than those of American