Called an earthquake, because DeepSeek "shook" the world, the group of 500 richest billionaires lost a total of 108 billion USD in just one day.
The US President said that DeepSeek could become “a wake-up call” for American companies.
What Vietnamese observers can learn from this event is the high-quality human resources in science and technology.
DeepSeek did not come from the sky, it is the product of young Chinese scientists. They are people who have been trained in the field of technology. Without high-quality human resources, there can be no technological products that shock the world.
The "soul" of DeepSeek - Liang Wenfeng, born in 1980, graduated as valedictorian in Electronic Information Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2002. In 2015, Liang founded the High-Flyer fund, a hedge fund famous for applying AI in trading strategies.
Liang Wenfeng founded DeepSeek in May 2023 and what happened after nearly two years is known to the world.
The second character is "AI prodigy" Luo Fuli (29 years old), who works for DeepSeek with expertise in natural language processing. Luo Fuli graduated with honors from the computer science program of Beijing Normal University.
There are many other experts who come from prestigious universities and are trained in technology-related majors. They are the ones who create products that disrupt the world's technological order, at least for the time being.
Looking back at Vietnam, we have made a determination to make "made in Vietnam" products, but there has not been any product that has attracted the attention of the world's technology community.
When technology corporations come to Vietnam, the question they ask is the human resources to supply for investment projects. Of course, to be honest, we can hardly meet the demand.
Vietnam does not have many excellent engineers and scientists in science and technology because decades ago, we did not have a vision to systematically train this human resource. There were a few universities that opened majors related to technology, but the quality was not high. It was not until the world exploded with billion-dollar products that domestic universities struggled to open majors in computer science and establish "big data" and "AI" institutes.
It is late, but there are still many ways to fill the human resource gap, including solutions to attract talents from around the world. They are Vietnamese engineers, experts, Vietnamese students studying abroad and foreign experts.
"Good land attracts birds", creating a suitable working environment and treatment will naturally attract talented people.