DeepSeek was founded by a hedge fund entrepreneur named Liang Wenfeng, who pulled together his former employees and dozens of Ph.D. graduates from Chinese universities to try and build human-level AI

After several days of silence, OpeNAI CEO Sam Altman has finally collected himself, and spoken out about Chinese AI startup DeepSeek throwing Silicon Valley into sheer chaos. The company's R1 AI model scared investors this week,