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Liang Wenfeng is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
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In January this year, an announcement from China rocked the world of artificial intelligence. The firm DeepSeek released its powerful but cheap R1 model out of the blue — instantly demonstrating that the United States was not as far ahead in AI as many experts had thought.
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Nature 648, 526 (2025)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03845-4
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