{"id":639868,"date":"2026-08-16T08:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/639868\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:47:16","slug":"home-province-of-deepseek-moonshot-founders-seeks-to-retain-attract-future-ai-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/639868\/","title":{"rendered":"Home province of DeepSeek, Moonshot founders seeks to retain, attract future AI talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s southern manufacturing powerhouse of Guangdong province welcomed nearly 40 computer science students from Tsinghua University this week, part of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3304750\/guangdong-aims-become-global-ai-and-robotics-hub-after-deepseeks-success?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a targeted push by local authorities<\/a> to bridge a widening gap in China\u2019s artificial intelligence race by attracting top-tier talent from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After graduating from Tsinghua and earning his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, Yang returned to China and later launched Moonshot in Beijing in 2023. Meanwhile, Liang attended Zhejiang University in eastern China, spent time in Chengdu in the southwestern province of Sichuan and ultimately settled in Hangzhou in Zhejiang to launch both his quantitative hedge fund and DeepSeek.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Industry metrics underscore Guangdong\u2019s uphill battle. According to the Hurun Research Institute, Beijing leads the country with 19 of China\u2019s top 50 AI companies, followed by Shanghai with 14. Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the two biggest cities in Guangdong, hold 10 combined.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meanwhile, second-tier cities are rapidly gaining ground. Hangzhou is thriving with star firms like DeepSeek and Unitree Robotics, while Hefei and Wuhan are building momentum around semiconductor giants ChangXin Memory Technologies and Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng. Photo: Weibo\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dc00d06c-2bda-4c14-bc57-b7ef76c98eef_2756e487.jpg\" title=\"DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng. Photo: Weibo\"\/>DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng. Photo: Weibo<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A core factor behind this disparity is the concentration of academic talent, according to experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s southern manufacturing powerhouse of Guangdong province welcomed nearly 40 computer science students from Tsinghua University this week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,1793,20426,381,8736,18,4693,43554,2422,35250,19,17,24535,292,2792,10522,82,2636],"class_list":["post-639868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-beijing","tag-carnegie-mellon-university","tag-china","tag-deepseek","tag-eire","tag-guangdong","tag-guangzhou","tag-hangzhou","tag-hefei","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-moonshot-ai","tag-nvidia","tag-shanghai","tag-shenzhen","tag-technology","tag-tsinghua-university"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639868","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=639868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}