Liang Wenfeng
Background
Liang Wenfeng graduated from Zhejiang University with degrees in electronic information engineering and computer science. In 2015, he co-founded High-Flyer Capital Management, turning it into one of China's top quantitative hedge funds through advanced machine learning algorithms. In 2023, he founded DeepSeek to focus exclusively on frontier artificial general intelligence.
Role at DeepSeek
Liang Wenfeng is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of DeepSeek and the co-founder of High-Flyer Capital Management. A deeply technical and reclusive visionary, Liang pioneered the integration of automated deep learning algorithms into quantitative financial trading before dedicating his resources to open-source artificial intelligence.
Under Liang's strategic direction, DeepSeek rejected outside venture capital to maintain complete research freedom. Liang championed a research philosophy focused on algorithmic elegance rather than capital expenditure brute force, orchestrating the development of DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 and establishing Hangzhou as a major global epicenter of frontier open-weights artificial intelligence.