This Chinese hedge fund whiz just sent the AI world into a tizzy — Meet DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng

DeepSeek’s Founder Liang Wenfeng demonstrated state-of-the-art artificial intelligence capabilities by achieving what tech giants considered impossible. He developed a competitive AI model for just $5.6 million.

The 40-year-old finance expert started his venture by purchasing thousands of NVIDIA chips in 2021 and evolved from a successful hedge fund manager into a powerful force in the global digital world. His remarkable story started at High-Flyer, China’s first quantitative hedge fund that exceeded 100 billion RMB, which he co-founded in 2015.