CEO of Chinese company that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei complained about to US government is now the world’s richest AI startup billionaire
DeepSeek founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng has become the world’s richest founder of an AI model startup. This comes after the Chinese company’s latest funding round more than doubled his estimated net worth, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index claims. The development comes months after DeepSeek was accused by US AI companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, of improperly using their AI models to improve its own systems. According to a Bloomberg report, Liang’s net worth is estimated at $36 billion, up from about $16.7 billion, placing him ahead of Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman among the founders of AI model companies.
