DeepSeek is the pathbreaking Chinese model that rivals the performance of ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude AI. It tops the charts of App store — Apple. It has spread ripples through the stock market. It has been developed by a young and talented team.

One member of the team deserves special mention — Luo Fuli, a girl 29-year-old, hailed as AI Prodigy in China. She is known for her pioneering contributions to natural language processing (NLP). She has read at Beijing Normal University and has specialised in computer science. She later got a seat at Institute of Computational Linguistics (Peking University) where she published 8 papers. Alibaba and Xiaomi collaborated with her. She developed VEO, a multiligual pretraining model. She joined DeepSeek in 2022. She played a major role in developing DeepSeek-V2. It rivals ChatGPT.

Lei Juan, Xiaomi founder, offered her a compensation package of 10 million yuan per annum.