Founder of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup. He studied at Zhejiang University, which ranked fourth in the 2025 Nature Index of research institutions. Mr Liang has made developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) his firm's mission and reckons it may arrive in as little as two years. His exploits in building a model nearly matching OpenAI's flagship at a fraction of the computing cost won him a meeting with Li Qiang, China's prime minister, in early 2025. Xi Jinping's televised handshake with him, broadcast into the country's living rooms, helped transform how ordinary Chinese view AI.
The point is, you see, that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.