Liang Wenfeng, the 39-year-old founder and CEO of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, has emerged as a key figure in China’s push to challenge US dominance in artificial intelligence. But who is this reclusive founder?

Liang Wenfeng, the 39-year-old founder of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, has become a defining figure in China’s tech landscape. His company’s breakthrough AI model has not only challenged Western dominance in artificial intelligence but also sparked a global selloff in tech stocks following its launch last week.

Liang Wenfeng, the 39-year-old founder of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, has in the matter of weeks become the face of China's tech industry and its hope of overcoming an ever-tightening noose of export controls imposed by the United States.

Liang had kept an extremely low profile until Jan. 20, when he was one of nine individuals asked to give a speech at a closed-door symposium hosted by China's Premier Li Qiang. He gave two rare media interviews to Chinese media outlet Waves last year and in 2023,

Liang Wenfeng is the founder of DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup potentially upending the industry. Here's everything to know about the hedge funder.

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, has Silicon Valley reeling with its R1 reasoning model, which it claims uses far less computing power than those of American