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Liang Wenfeng
Title: CEO Company: DeepSeek Industry: Technology
Liang is the founder and CEO of DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that shocked the global industry with its DeepSeek-V3 model. A quantitative trader by background and founder of the hedge fund High-Flyer, Liang applied financial rigour to AI training, discovering novel ways to drastically reduce the cost of compute.
His firm popularised the Mixture-of- Experts( MoE) architecture, proving that top-tier performance could be achieved with a fraction of the energy used by US hyperscalers. Liang is a staunch advocate for the open-source community in China, releasing powerful models that have been downloaded millions of times. Despite strict US export controls on chips, his team’ s efficiency breakthroughs have kept China competitive in the AGI race. He operates with a low profile but is widely respected for his technical intuition, proving that algorithmic innovation can rival brute-force hardware scale.
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