Who Is Luo Fuli, the Baby-faced AI Prodigy Behind China’s DeepSeek Revolution? [Video]

China’s AI model, DeepSeek, has taken the tech world by storm, surpassing ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude AI. The chatbot has climbed to the top of Apple’s App Store rankings in the US, dethroning ChatGPT and shaking up the stock market. This rise is led by a team of young engineers working with limited resources but remarkable expertise.

Luo Fuli: China’s AI Prodigy

One of DeepSeek’s key figures is Luo Fuli, a 29-year-old AI researcher. Despite struggling with computer science in her early years at Beijing Normal University, Luo excelled at Peking University’s Institute of Computational Linguistics. In 2019, she published eight research papers at the ACL conference, gaining the attention of top tech firms.

She later joined Alibaba’s DAMO Academy, contributing to projects like VECO and AliceMind. In 2022, she moved to DeepSeek, where her expertise in natural language processing helped develop DeepSeek-V2, a model that rivals ChatGPT. Her growing reputation attracted Xiaomi’s founder, Lei …