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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek founding father Liang Wenfengis reportedly set to meet with China ’s top politicians , let in Chinese loss leader Xi Jinping , during a summit that Alibaba laminitis Jack Ma is also expected to attend .

The height , which could take place as soon as next week , may be intend as a signalby China ’s Communist Party that it aims to follow a more supportive posture toward domestic secret - sector firms , concord to Bloomberg . In 2020 , Chinese authoritieseffectively preventedAlibaba from accomplish what would have been the biggest public offering in account .

Liang , who foundedDeepSeekin 2023 as a subsidiary of his quantitative hedge stock , High - Flyer , rose to jut last month after DeepSeek’sopenly availableAI modelsshowed strong public presentation against leading model from OpenAI and other American AI company . U.S. officials haveraised concernsover the explosive popularity of DeepSeek ’s model and services , which they perceive as a menace to the U.S. ’ celestial pole place in the AI race .

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