Behind the Deepseek program stands stunning Chinese University

Big statue Maa zedong It still stands at the entrance to Zhejiang University and observes the transformation of the eastern part of Hangzhou, which lies 175 kilometers southwest of Shanghai. Such statues in China have anachronistic everywhere, and especially here and especially after the events of the last few months.

A recent revolution in Hangzhou was not maoist but technological. Deepseek, which stunned foreign competitors last month with its revolutionary models, was designed in Hangzhou. He founded it Liang wenfenga graduate of the university of Zhe Yes, as they call it (by Chinese name Zhejiang Daxue). This one is still quite unknown outside China, but it stands in the center of a new dynamic ecosystem of researchers and entrepreneurs in a city inspired by the California Silicon Valley.

We could see this ecosystem on 17. February when Chinese leader Xi Jin Ping In Beijing, she met a group of technology entrepreneurs. Among them was Jack mawhich founded Alibaba in 1999 in Hangzhou, an e-commerce giant, but in 2020, according to the financial regulator, it disappeared from the field of view. The second was Liang, who studied artificial intelligence at the University of Zhe da and embarked on a business career for the first time. The Chinese leader, who called in such an open and met with Mr. Liang, will obviously only encourage the growth of Hangzhou.

The University of Zhe has grown rapidly in recent decades, buying top quality equipment and employing top scientists. In seven campuses, where there are blocks overlooking the lakes and plum trees, about 70,000 students and professors live and work. Hangzhou and other cities want to transform their universities into « innovation ecosystems ».