{"id":1021173,"date":"2026-07-15T11:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021173"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:03:06","slug":"deepseek-founder-liang-wenfeng-becomes-worlds-richest-ai-founder-as-net-worth-tops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/deepseek-founder-liang-wenfeng-becomes-worlds-richest-ai-founder-as-net-worth-tops\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng becomes world&#8217;s richest AI founder as net worth tops \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has become the world&#8217;s richest AI founder after his wealth more than doubled following the Chinese startup&#8217;s latest fundraising round. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Liang Wenfeng&#8217;s net worth has increased to $36 billion, up from about $16.7 billion, putting him ahead of Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman. According to Bloomberg, most of Liang&#8217;s wealth comes from his ownership of DeepSeek, the AI startup he founded in 2023 as a spin-off from the AI division of his hedge fund, Zhejiang High-Flyer Asset Management. The report said Liang&#8217;s large ownership stake is unusual among AI founders. Unlike many U.S. AI startups, where ownership is spread across multiple founders and investors, Liang has retained control of nearly four-fifths of DeepSeek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has become the world&#8217;s richest AI founder after his wealth more than doubled following the Chinese startup&#8217;s latest fundraising round. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Liang Wenfeng&#8217;s net worth has increased to $36 billion, up from about $16.7 billion, putting him ahead of Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman. According to Bloomberg, most of Liang&#8217;s wealth comes from his ownership of DeepSeek, the AI startup he founded in 2023 as a spin-off from the AI division of his hedge fund, Zhejiang High-Flyer Asset Management. The report said Liang&#8217;s large ownership stake is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021174,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021173\/revisions\/1021174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}