Where Is DeepSeek Founder Liang Wenfeng From?
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is from Wuchuan, Zhanjiang, Guangdong. He graduated from Wuchuan Meilu Primary School in 1996 (ranking 11th among the 40 students directly admitted to Wuchuan No. 1 Middle School that year). At the age of 17, he was admitted to Zhejiang University majoring in Electronic Information Engineering. In 2007, at the age of 22, Liang Wenfeng was admitted to the graduate program in Information and Communication Engineering at Zhejiang University, where he studied under Xiang Zhiyu, focusing on machine vision research.

On January 20, 2025, Liang Wenfeng attended the Premier's symposium and delivered a speech.
Career Journey: From Quantitative Investment to the AI Revolution
The Rise of Huanfang Quantitative
In 2015, Liang Wenfeng co-founded Huanfang Quantitative with Xu Jin, focusing on quantitative trading driven by mathematics and artificial intelligence. By 2019, the company's assets under management surpassed 10 billion yuan, and by 2021 it reached the 100-billion level, becoming one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of domestic quantitative private equity.
Technology-Driven: Huanfang Quantitative adopted AI strategies comprehensively from its early days. In 2016, it launched its first deep-learning-generated trading model, and through its self-developed "Firefly" series of supercomputing platforms (equipped with tens of thousands of GPUs), it accumulated computational advantages, laying the foundation for subsequent AI large model R&D.
The Founding and Breakthroughs of DeepSeek
Venturing into AGI: In 2023, Liang Wenfeng established DeepSeek, with the goal aimed directly at Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The company's core strategy centered on open-source and low-cost approaches. Its released DeepSeek-V2/V3 and R1 models perform on par with OpenAI, while training costs are only 1/10 to 1/70 of the latter's.
Technical Highlights: The R1 model ranked third on the Chatbot Arena comprehensive leaderboard, with particularly outstanding capabilities in style control and mathematical reasoning (77.5% accuracy on the MATH benchmark), earning it the reputation as "the mysterious force from the East."
On January 27, 2025, DeepSeek topped the U.S. App Store free chart, marking the first major overseas breakthrough for a Chinese AI product.
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