Meet Luo Fuli: The young talent behind DeepSeek’s global success was offered Rs 11.5 crore annual package by Xiaomi’s founder

Know who is Luo Fuli, the 29-year-old 'AI prodigy' behind the global success of DeepSeek, the Chinese AI chatbot. According to the South China Morning Post, Xiaomi's founder offered her an annual compensation package of 10 million yuan.

Sneha KumariUpdated: Jan 29, 2025, 12:50 IST

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Meet Luo Fuli: The young talent behind DeepSeek’s global success was offered Rs 11.5 crore annual package by Xiaomi’s founder

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DeepSeek, the groundbreaking AI model developed by China, has taken the tech industry by storm, as it is said to be outperforming the existing artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude AI. While one of the standout members of the team who developed DeepSeek, Luo Fuli has been hailed as an 'AI prodigy' in China because of her brilliant mind.

DeepSeek has already impressed many, including Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. The chatbot has ranked at the top of the Apple App Store charts surpassed ChatGPT and sent shock waves through the US stock market.

As DeepSeek's incredible success can be attributed to its talented young workers who have developed cutting-edge AI technology despite its limited resources.

Who is Luo Fuli?

Among all the team members, Luo Fuli has stood out as an "AI prodigy" in China. Luo Fuli is a 29-year-old AI researcher and prodigy who has garnered widespread acknowledgement for her major contributions to natural language processing (NLP).

Fuli's journey started at Beijing Normal University, where she initially struggled in computer science, but she eventually excelled in the field. Following this, she earned a spot at Peking University's Institute of Computational Linguistics, publishing eight papers at the prestigious ACL conference in 2019.

Luo Fuli's achievements attracted tech giants like Alibaba and Xiaomi

Luo Fuli's acclamation extended beyond this, as her remarkable achievement caught the attention of tech giants Alibaba and Xiaomi; this paved the way for her future collaborations.

Fuli was also a researcher at Alibaba's DAMO Academy, and she developed the multilingual pre-training model VECO. She also contributed to the open-source AliceMind project.

Feminism with Chinese characteristics.

This is Luo Fuli, a prodigy at DeepSeek and author of 8 AI papers!

She got her Masters degree from Peking University in 2020.

Worked at Alibaba, joined DeepSeek in 2022, did amazing stuff, and now has been “stolen” by Xiaomi AI lab! pic.twitter.com/MCz3ahXKVJ
— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) January 29, 2025

Luo Fuli joined DeepSeek in 2022

Later in 2022, Luo Fuli joined DeepSeek as a natural language processor. Her expertise in natural language processing played a major role in developing DeepSeek-V-2. This has been acclaimed for its ability to rival ChatGPT.

After spending a stint at DeepSeek, Luo's expectational skills caught the attention of Xiomi's founder, Lei Jun. According to the South China Morning Post, Xiaomi's founder offered her an annual compensation package of 10 million yuan.

Know more about DeepSeek

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI chatbot that is making waves in the AI world because of its impressive large language models. The chatbot was founded in 2023 by 40-year-old Liang Wenfeng in Hangzhou, China.

The large language models (LLMs) were developed at a significantly lower price as compared to their other competitors. DeepSeek-V3's performance rivals are among the top LLMs, including Llama 3.1 and Qwen 2.5, while matching GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

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