Jan 22, 2025 · Liang Wenfeng (Chinese: 梁文锋; pinyin: Liáng Wénfēng; born 1985) is a Chinese entrepreneur and businessman who is the co-founder of the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, as well as the founder and CEO of its artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek.

2 days ago · Liang Wenfeng, who founded DeepSeek in 2023, was born in southern China’s Guangdong and studied in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, home to e-commerce giant Alibaba and other tech firms, according to Chinese media reports.

3 days ago · About Liang Wenfeng. Liang Wenfeng graduated from Zhejiang University with a degree in Artificial Intelligence. He co-founded the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer in 2016, which quickly gained recognition for its innovative use of AI-driven trading strategies. By 2021, High-Flyer had fully integrated AI into its operations, using machine ...

1 day ago · But who is Liang Wenfeng, the leader of the company so disruptive that it sent Nvidia shares tumbling? According to The Wall Street Journal, DeepSeek isn’t the entrepreneur’s first company. In ...

2 days ago · Liang Wenfeng (right), the founder of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, speaks at a symposium chaired by Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Jan 20, 2025. (Photo: CCTV Plus)

2 days ago · Chinese tech startup DeepSeek, which is posing a significant challenge to the U.S. AI monopoly, was founded by hedge fund manager Liang Wenfeng and operates from an AI lab in Hangzhou, eastern China. Since unveiling DeepSeek’s R1 model, which created a global buzz, founder Liang, 40, has become a national hero in China.

2 days ago · DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng: From hedge fund manager to AI start-up. Liang Wenfeng has emerged as a dark horse in the industry, with some even calling him China’s Sam Altman. However, he has had an interesting journey up to here. He grew up in the 1980s in “fifth-tier city” Guangdong, China, as he told a 2024 interview.

2 days ago · A 40-year-old information and electronic engineering graduate, Liang Wenfeng, has partly funded DeepSeek, the Chinese Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, whose latest app has become the most downloaded app in the US.. The Hangzhou-based start-up topped Apple’s free app chart after releasing a new open source AI assistant that rivals OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

2 days ago · DeepSeek was founded in late 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, a Chinese hedge fund manager. Liang has quickly become a key figure in the AI space, drawing comparisons to Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI.

3 days ago · DeepSeek is an AI research lab which Wenfeng founded. It comes under Fire-Flyer. Its reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 and its variants like DeepSeek-R1-Zero claim to surpass existing benchmarks on ...