India, March 11 -- An obscure village in southern China has suddenly caught the eye of tourists after Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek rose to prominence. The village where 40-year-old Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, was born and raised is now attracting tech lovers, the South China Morning Post said.

The Mililing village in Wuchuan has now received a boost of tourism promtping local authorities to spend money on giving the whole place a facelift.

Wenfeng's parents work as teachers at a primary school in the village where he studied as a child. In 2002, he went to study at the prestigious Zhejiang University after scoring high in the country's university entrance examination.

After DeepSeek took the tech wo...