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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is set to meet with China’s top politicians, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping, at an upcoming summit. This meeting signals China’s potential shift towards a more supportive stance on domestic private-sector firms. Liang founded DeepSeek in 2023 as a subsidiary of High-Flyer, a quantitative hedge fund, and gained prominence for DeepSeek’s AI models that have shown strong performance against leading models from OpenAI and other American AI companies. The summit, which may occur as soon as next week, will also include Alibaba founder Jack Ma, highlighting DeepSeek’s growing prominence in the AI industry and its role in China’s tech landscape.