Founder and CEO of DeepSeek
The founder of DeepSeek and co-founder of the quantitative fund High-Flyer, whose R1 model drew global attention for strong results on limited compute.
Liang Wenfeng is a Chinese entrepreneur and the co-founder of the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, as well as founder and CEO of its AI company DeepSeek. Born in 1985 in Wuchuan, Guangdong, to primary school teachers, he studied at Zhejiang University, earning a bachelor's degree in electronic information engineering in 2007 and a master's degree in information and communication engineering in 2010.
After the 2008 financial crisis he led a team of classmates in applying machine learning to quantitative trading. In 2016 he co-founded Ningbo High-Flyer Quantitative Investment Management, and in 2019 he founded High-Flyer AI to research AI algorithms. From 2021 he bought thousands of Nvidia GPUs, and High-Flyer's computing infrastructure later supported the creation of DeepSeek in 2023. DeepSeek-R1 drew international attention for high-level performance with comparatively limited compute. Liang was named to TIME's list of the 100 most influential people in AI in 2025.
Founded the AI company DeepSeek in 2023, building on the large-scale computing infrastructure assembled at High-Flyer.
Co-founded the quantitative investment firm High-Flyer in 2016 and applied machine learning to trading before founding its AI research arm in 2019.