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Who is Liang Wenfeng? DeepSeek founder comes from AI investing
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
In 2013, a few years after graduating from university, Liang founded the investment firm Jacobi, where he wrote AI algorithms to pick stocks. Two years later, he started High-Flyer, the AI-supported hedge fund that backs DeepSeek and that, according to the WSJ, currently manages $8 billion. Liang distinguishes himself from other AI founders by making his product free and open source; with the backing of his own hedge fund, he doesn’t seem to need the extra money.
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