Liang Wenfeng

DeepSeek founder says AGI, not a super app, is the company’s only goal

Details from a nearly four-hour closed-door investor meeting with DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng have circulated widely after Tencent Tech published a lightly edited transcript this week. In it, Liang laid out a strategy centered entirely on achieving artificial general intelligence,…

DeepSeek founder vows to keep top AI models open-source

Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, laid out an expansive vision for his company's future in a nearly four-hour investor meeting, declaring that the Chinese AI laboratory's most powerful models — including upcoming releases — will remain open-source and that…

DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng is now the richest AI founder

Liang Wenfeng, the 40-year-old founder of Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, has become the wealthiest AI founder in the world, with a net worth of $36 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The surge, more than doubling his previously…