Liang Wenfeng has become the founder of the world's wealthiest AI company, thanks to the soaring valuation of DeepSeek.

According to reports, after DeepSeek completed its latest round of financing, founder Liang Wenfeng's net worth more than doubled, making him the wealthiest among artificial intelligence model developers. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Liang Wenfeng's current net worth is $36 billion, ranking him higher than Anthropic PBC's co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Greg Brockman.