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as of February 6.25. Recently, my colleague Eleanor Olcott took a trip to China's southern Guangdong province.

She traveled to a tiny farming village to visit the childhood home of Liang Wen Feng,

the founder of the artificial intelligence startup Deepseek.

We've just arrived in Liang Wen Feng's village of Mili Ling,

and there are lots of signs welcoming him home,

lots of red banners saying that we celebrate your success.

That success Eleanor's talking about has to do with something very big that happened last month.

You probably recall this startup Deepseek shocked the world by proving that China could be

competitive on AI. They showed they could potentially compete with the likes of American companies,

such as Open AI or Meta.

We've just walked past Liangman Feng's house. You can hear firecrackers going off in the

background because it's Chinese New Year and people singing karaoke as well.

Liang and his parents left yesterday, apparently escorted by a bunch of security guards because they are being inundated by visitors from all over Guangdong coming to pay their respects.

Liang Wen Feng became a celebrity practically overnight.

So much so that on Eleanor's visit to Liang's hometown,

she found people who had traveled there just to see where this new hero of China had been raised.

Then you, when you heard Liang Wen Feng, this name?

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