DeepSeek's Wenfeng Liang Named to TIME's "100 Most Influential People in the World 2025" List

April 18th.USA《eraThe weekly magazine has announced the list of "The World's 100 Most Influential People 2025", and the list of "The World's 100 Most Influential People 2025" has been published.DeepSeek FounderLeung Man Fungbe chosen.

Leung Man Fung appeared on "Pioneers"In the category, 1AI with editorial comments as follows:

• It took a while for Silicon Valley to really understand what Leung had accomplished. But soon the market began to falter, and US tech dominance was openly questioned, and Leung gained global fame.
• By processing data more efficiently, DeepSeek, a little-known AI startup founded by Leung, released a generative AI platform in January that rivals OpenAI's ChatGPT, but uses a fraction of the cutting-edge chips made by NVIDIA.
• NVIDIA's market capitalization quickly evaporated by $600 billion, the biggest drop for a single company in U.S. stock market history. Meanwhile, the low-cost AI buzz around DeepSeek helped add billions of dollars to the tech stock market value in mainland China and Hong Kong.
• By February, DeepSeek had surpassed ChatGPT to become the No. 1 free app in Apple's U.S. App Store.
• "We're not looking for quick profits," Mr. Liang, 40, told Chinese media. "We want to be at the forefront of technology and drive the whole ecosystem forward."

1AI was informed by the list that of the entrepreneurial celebrities, theAMD CEO Su Zifeng, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerbergalso managed to make the list, but in the "Titans" category.