Liang Wenfeng

Liang Wenfeng holds an incredibly rigorous academic and professional background in advanced mathematics and algorithmic trading. Earning his engineering degrees from Zhejiang University, his highly intense background building complex machine-learning models for massive quantitative trading at High-Flyer Capital provided the exact theoretical and infrastructural blueprint required to successfully train DeepSeek's massive generative AI models.

Liang Wenfeng is a highly influential Chinese quantitative investor and the founder of the artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek. A brilliant mathematician, Liang initially co-founded High-Flyer Capital Management, which rapidly grew into one of China's largest and most successful quantitative hedge funds. Driven by the need for massive computational power to run trading algorithms, Liang inadvertently built an absolutely massive supercomputing infrastructure (stockpiling thousands of Nvidia A100 GPUs). In 2023, he leveraged this massive hardware advantage to found DeepSeek. Under his leadership, DeepSeek shocked the global AI industry in 2025 by releasing the R1 model, which matched OpenAI's performance at a fraction of the cost.