3 days ago · Meet the hedge fund manager who founded DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that began as a hobby and is now laying waste to U.S. stocks BY Jason Ma Hedge fund manager Liang Wenfeng started DeepSeek ...

2 days ago · BANGKOK (AP) — 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 and then refined its quantitative models to branch into artificial intelligence.. Liang Wenfeng, who founded DeepSeek in 2023, was born in southern China’s …

2 days ago · 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 tech to ...

2 days ago · DeepSeek’s founder started as math whiz before entering the world of finance and later founding the tech firm. REUTERS. Over the past five years, at least five funds managed by High-Flyer have ...

DeepSeek (Chinese: 深度求索; pinyin: Shēndù Qiúsuǒ) is a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops open-source large language models (LLMs). Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, it is owned and funded by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, whose co-founder, Liang Wenfeng, established the company in 2023 and serves as its CEO.. The DeepSeek-R1 model …

2 days ago · DeepSeek’s origins are in finance, not technology for technology’s sake. Its parent company, a Chinese hedge fund called High-Flyer, began not as a laboratory devoted to safeguarding humanity ...

3 days ago · Hedge fund manager Liang Wenfeng started DeepSeek in 2023. · Fortune · Andrey Rudakov—Bloomberg/Getty Images

3 days ago · Meet Liang Wenfeng, the hedge fund manager behind Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. ... DeepSeek then stunned Silicon Valley again with the launch of its R1 model on January 20, 2025.

2 days ago · 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 ...

2 days ago · Chinese Quant Whiz Built DeepSeek In The Shadow Of a Hedge Fund Rout. Liang Wenfeng’s hedge fund firm had early success with AI; DeepSeek’s breakthrough wiped out $1 trillion in market value