# Liang Wenfeng Liang Wenfeng is a Chinese entrepreneur and AI researcher, founder of [[Deepseek]], the AI lab whose open-weight models (DeepSeek-V3, DeepSeek-R1) shook the global AI industry in early 2025 by matching frontier capabilities at a fraction of the training cost. He holds a degree in electronic and information engineering from Zhejiang University. Before DeepSeek, he co-founded High-Flyer in 2015, a quantitative hedge fund that became one of China's largest, using machine learning and GPU clusters to drive trading. In 2023 he spun the AI research effort out as DeepSeek to pursue AGI. Liang is known for a research-first, talent-dense culture, an open-source-by-default posture, and a focus on training efficiency over raw compute. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Liang Wenfeng]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Liang Wenfeng]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[Deepseek]] - [[Artificial Intelligence (AI)]] - [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]] - [[AI Open Weight Models]] ## References - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Wenfeng - https://www.deepseek.com/