Meet Liang Wenfeng – The Mysterious Billionaire Behind DeepSeek’s AI Takeover 🤯🚀
TL;DR Liang Wenfeng, a former quant trader turned AI visionary, has taken the artificial intelligence world by storm. After years of perfecting AI-driven trading strategies, he pivoted towards AI research, culminating in the launch of DeepSeek. By January 2025, DeepSeek surpassed ChatGPT to become the #1 free app on the U.S. iOS App Store, challenging Western AI dominance. Liang's journey from finance to AI is a testament to China's growing prowess in artificial intelligence. 📖 The Rise of Liang Wenfeng: From Finance to AI Dominance Liang Wenfeng, born in 1985 in Guangdong, China, pursued a degree in electronic information processing and computer vision at Zhejiang University. During the 2007-2008 financial crisis, he and his classmates began collecting financial market data and experimenting with machine learning for quantitative trading. This early passion for data-driven decision-making would later shape his future in […]