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Earlier this year,
a new product from the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek shocked the world and rattled Wall Street.
China's DeepSeek is freaking out the AI world right now.
Tech stocks tumbled as its app surged to the top of the download charts.
But despite the global attention,
very little is known about the man behind DeepSeek, Chinese entrepreneur Liang Wenfang.
Liang Wenfang is certainly a mystery figure.
Bloomberg's Sarita Rai covers artificial intelligence in Asia.
He's certainly one of the most inaccessible and low-key tech entrepreneurs that I've come across.
Just to illustrate how private he is,
we weren't able to find any pictures of him on the internet when we scoured through his website and all of that,
and that picture got out into the world, and he was everywhere.
What does this man of mystery look like?
He is slim, wears glasses, but doesn't talk much.
Baby-faced?
Yes, I think we could describe him like that.
DeepSeek rarely answers questions about Liang, citing his privacy.
But Sarita and her colleagues were curious about this man,