{"id":223484,"date":"2025-12-09T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/223484\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:12:14","slug":"deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-makes-the-cut-in-top-10-people-who-shaped-science-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/223484\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek\u2019s Liang Wenfeng makes the cut in top 10 \u2018people who shaped science in 2025\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nature\u2019s 10 profile of Liang recognised the disruption caused in January by the release of DeepSeek-R1<\/a>, a reasoning model that showed how \u201cthe United States<\/a> was not as far ahead in AI as many experts had thought\u201d.Hangzhou<\/a>-based DeepSeek, a spin-off from Liang\u2019s High-Flyer Quantitative Fund, made headlines early this year for roiling the US stock market. On January 27, a massive sell-off<\/a> wiped out nearly US$1 trillion in tech stocks, including US$600 billion from Nvidia<\/a> alone.The performance of DeepSeek\u2019s R1 and V3, released in December, rivalled that of OpenAI\u2019s offerings at a fraction of the training cost, which cast doubt on the assumptions that underpinned the high valuations of US semiconductor<\/a> and AI companies.Training costs for Meta Platforms<\/a>\u2019 Llama 3 405B model, for example, were more than 10 times greater, according to Nature.<\/p>\n

DeepSeek\u2019s open-source models, which are downloaded and built on for free, have been \u201ca boon for researchers who want to adapt algorithms to their own field\u201d, according to Nature. That development had \u201cprompted other companies in China and the US to follow suit by releasing their own open models\u201d.<\/p>\n

In many ways, \u201cDeepSeek has been hugely influential\u201d, said Adina Yakefu, a researcher at AI developer platform Hugging Face<\/a>, in the Nature profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nature\u2019s 10 profile of Liang recognised the disruption caused in January by the release of DeepSeek-R1, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[120311,120309,291,377,381,4563,3434,8736,120310,18,10562,2422,37305,43982,19,120302,17,386,120308,97711,120305,3337,3618,292,120303,42525,22950,120306,133,14664,22909,120307,384,120304],"class_list":{"0":"post-223484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-achal-agrawal","9":"tag-adina-yakefu","10":"tag-ai","11":"tag-brazil","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","14":"tag-crispr","15":"tag-deepseek","16":"tag-du-mengran","17":"tag-eire","18":"tag-hainan","19":"tag-hangzhou","20":"tag-hugging-face","21":"tag-huntingtons-disease","22":"tag-ie","23":"tag-institute-of-deep-sea-science-and-engineering","24":"tag-ireland","25":"tag-japan","26":"tag-kj-muldoon","27":"tag-liang-wenfeng","28":"tag-luciano-moreira","29":"tag-meta-platforms","30":"tag-nature","31":"tag-nvidia","32":"tag-precious-matsoso","33":"tag-r1","34":"tag-sanya","35":"tag-sarah-tabrizi","36":"tag-science","37":"tag-semiconductor","38":"tag-susan-monarez","39":"tag-tony-tyson","40":"tag-united-states","41":"tag-yifat-merbl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}