Blurb: Wenfeng was born in 1985 in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has taken the AI industry by storm and become the talk of the town all over the world. Founded by Liam Wenfeng, DeepSeek has come out of nowhere and turned the markets upside down.
Here’s what to know about Liang Wenfeng:
Described by his colleagues as introspective and genius, the engineer first made his mark in China’s investment world in the late 2010s. He confounded a hedge fund that used artificial intelligence models to deliver strong returns and attracted billions of dollars in capital.
Wenfeng was born in 1985 in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering in electronic information engineering and a Master of Engineering in information and communication engineering from Zhejiang University.
After graduating, he moved to Chengdu, Sichuan, to experiment with potential ways to apply AI across various fields. He went on to co-found the quantitative investment firm Ningbo High-Flyer in 2016 where he used mathematics and AI for investment strategies.
He also founded the AI research lab DeepSeek, which comes under Fire-Flyer. Shortly after DeepSeek shook the world’s AI industry, the world’s leading American chip maker Nvidia lost about $ 600 billion in one stroke, as per reports.
Liang created this chatbot model at a very low cost, at less than $ 6 million. In comparison, building ChatGPT cost more than $ 60 million. Started in the year 2023, DeepSeek is just two years old. In just two years, DeepSeek has paved its way across every tech vertical and is worth $1 billion.
There is not much information in the public domain about the net worth of Liang. However, according to the Chemical City Paper website, 40-year-old Liang’s net worth is $ 3.2 billion.
Liang keeps a relatively low profile. One of Liang’s business partners said due to low profile as a “very nerdy guy with a terrible hairstyle,” a lot of people did not take him or his vision seriously.
