• By Nidhi Giri
  • Wed, 29 Jan 2025 03:28 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND

DeepSeek, the latest entrant in the AI landscape is rapidly gaining attention for its unique approach to AI and its ability to challenge dominant players like ChatGPT and Gemini in the global market. 29-year-old researcher, Luo Fuli, joined the DeepSeek team and played a crucial role in the development of the DeepSeek-V2 and large language models that today rival ChatGPT at a far lower cost as well.

Luo Fuli has been dubbed an “AI prodigy” by Chinese media, reported the South China Morning Post. 

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Who Is Luo Fuli?

Luo Fuli gained a reputation in the world of Artificial Intelligence Research due to her knack for natural language processing.

Luo's journey began at Beijing Normal University, and she was later accepted into Peking University's Institute of Computational Linguistics, and published eight papers at the prestigious ACL conference in 2019.

Her work in the field caught the attention of major tech companies such as Alibaba and Xiaomi.

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In 2022, she joined DeepSeek and contributed towards building large language models. At the time DeepSeek was known as a quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, which used complex mathematical algorithms for trading.

Only by 2023, had the founder Liang Wenfeng announced their intentions to launch an artificial intelligence model. While working at DeepSeek and creating DeepSeek V2 in particular, her talents gained even more recognition.

She is most well-known for being scouted by Xiaomi's founder Lei Jun and offered 10 million yuan, reported the South China Morning Post.

In 2024, Luo Fuli also published a paper with several others which allowed access to the DeepSeek open-source codes to help push the boundaries of research.