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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng skips Paris AI summit as China champions its global role
DeepSeek’s founder Liang Wenfeng skipped the two-day Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris despite being invited to attend, as top Chinese experts in the field trumpeted the country’s role in the global AI industry.
China’s AI progress, as demonstrated by advances such as DeepSeek’s open-source models, contributed to the global technology community and drove wider adoption, the country’s academics told the conference, which took place on Monday and Tuesday.
Since US start-up OpenAI released ChatGPT and ushered in a new AI era, the field has been developing quickly. DeepSeek showed the world a means to build AI systems at a low cost, said Andrew Yao Chi-chih, a computer scientist and Turing Award winner from Beijing’s Tsinghua University, at a side event.
“Since [DeepSeek’s AI models] are open source, they’ll be able to benefit the global AI community by having all of us advance the technology together,” Yao said.
DeepSeek’s breakthrough has sparked a rush among local companies from advanced manufacturing sectors to internet services to adopt the start-up’s low-cost, high-performance AI models. Personal computer giant Lenovo Group, Shenzhen-based robotics firm UBTech and electric vehicle maker Geely were among the first to integrate DeepSeek’s models into their products in recent weeks.
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