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Liang Wenfeng

Founder, DeepSeek

Known asChinese businessman (born 1985)
RolesFounder, DeepSeek
EducationZhejiang University
RecognitionTime 100, Nature's 10
LinksWikipedia · deepseek.com

About Liang Wenfeng

Liang Wenfeng is the founder of DeepSeek.

DeepSeek: Open-weight reasoning and chat models (DeepSeek-V3, R1), backed by the High-Flyer fund.

Liang studied at Zhejiang University.

Honours for Liang's work include: Time 100 and Nature's 10.

Today DeepSeek ranks #39 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 55 papers in the last year and 27 public models released in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Liang is part of that story.

Facts from public company information, Wikipedia and Wikidata; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Liang, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.

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