Founder Profile
Liang Wenfeng
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Liang Wenfeng?
Liang Wenfeng is a founder of DeepSeek, which was founded in 2023.
- Company founded
- DeepSeek
- Founded
- 2023
Background
Quantitative finance veteran who previously founded the massive high-frequency trading firm High-Flyer Quant.
Founding Story
Liang Wenfeng founded DeepSeek in 2023. Leveraging the massive GPU clusters and algorithmic expertise he built at his quantitative trading firm, High-Flyer, he aimed to build a purely Chinese, open-source AI rival to OpenAI. Under his leadership, DeepSeek rapidly trained the highly efficient DeepSeek-V2 and DeepSeek-Coder models, aggressively undercutting Western AI API pricing and establishing the company as a dominant force in China's generative AI ecosystem.
Liang Wenfeng was born in 1985 in Zhanjiang. Education: Zhejiang University; Zhejiang University.
Liang was born in 1985 and attended Zhejiang University. In 2025 he was named to Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people.