Liang Wenfeng is founder and CEO of DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI lab that drew global attention in early 2025 with open-weight models including DeepSeek-R1. He previously co-founded the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, whose compute and research infrastructure seeded DeepSeek in 2023.123
At a glance
- Current roles
- Founder and chief executive officer +1 more
- Company
- DeepSeek
- Fields
- Language models
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
DeepSeek
Liang founded DeepSeek in 2023 as High-Flyer pursued AGI research. Reuters, AP, and other outlets identify him as founder and CEO; DeepSeek's R1 release in January 2025 put Chinese open-weight models at the center of global AI debate.12
High-Flyer
Before DeepSeek, Liang co-founded High-Flyer, a major Chinese quant fund that built large GPU clusters later used for DeepSeek training, according to contemporary coverage.31
Timeline
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
- Co-founder, High-Flyer
Where they work
- DeepSeek 2 people in the wiki
Related people
- Luo FuliAlso at DeepSeek
- Nick FrosstLanguage models
- Illia PolosukhinLanguage models
- David D. CoxLanguage models
- Koray KavukcuogluLanguage models
- Emad MostaqueLanguage models
- Ce ZhangLanguage models
- Jakob UszkoreitLanguage models
- Ilyas MoutawwakilLanguage models
- Emmett ShearLanguage models
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 23, 2026 · data updated Oct 23, 2026