Its co-founder, Liang Wenfeng, established the company in 2023 and serves as its CEO. The DeepSeek-R1 model provides responses comparable to other contemporary large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4o and o1. [3] Its training cost is reported to be significantly lower than other LLMs.

3 days ago · DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, 40, is a billionaire. He started off in engineering, then founded and ran a hedge fund, before founding popular AI startup DeepSeek.

Jan 28, 2025 · The 40-year-old founder of China's DeepSeek, an AI startup that has startled markets with its capacity to compete with industry leaders like OpenAI, kept a low profile as he built up a hedge fund that now manages a reported $8 billion in assets.

Jan 29, 2025 · In technology, many entrepreneurs get only one defining act. Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, is already on his second.. The engineer, described by colleagues as introspective, first made ...

Jan 28, 2025 · The man who founded DeepSeek, the artificial intelligence company that rattled the U.S. stock market, is 40-year-old Liang Wenfeng, a former hedge fund manager who said he shifted into...

BEIJING, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Liang Wenfeng, the 39-year-old founder of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, has in the matter of weeks become the face of China's tech industry and its hope of overcoming an ...

Jan 29, 2025 · Liang Wenfeng is now leading China in its AI revolution as the superpower attempts to keep pace with the dominant AI industry in the United States. But who is the founder of DeepSeek?

Jan 28, 2025 · Liang Wenfeng, who founded DeepSeek in 2023, was born in southern China’s Guangdong and studied in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, home to e-commerce giant Alibaba and other tech firms, according to Chinese media reports.