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# DeepSeek

2026-10-13

100 Product Managers Who Changed the World · #28: Liang Wenfeng

Founder of quantitative fund High-Flyer and architect of DeepSeek. Uncomfortable with Silicon Valley-style evangelism, he led a small team of engineers to crush AI pricing monopolies with Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), FP8 mixed-precision, and hyper-efficient training — and with DeepSeek-R1's pure reinforcement learning reasoning, gave Silicon Valley its first genuine existential anxiety from native Chinese innovation. Ranked

2026-07-25

Liang Wenfeng Is Now the World's Richest AI Founder — By Doing the Opposite of Every Big Tech Giant

Bloomberg's data: DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is worth $36 billion, doubled in a year, surpassing the co-founders of OpenAI and Anthropic to become the richest person in pure AI foundation models. From a product manager's angle, here's why his 'narrow and deep' bet outran the giants stacking money and headcount.