Low profile, high AI ambition: what leaked comments reveal about DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng
In an era dominated by aggressive tech founders who chase billion-dollar valuations and maximal profits while curating loud public profiles, Liang Wenfeng stands out for his insistence on staying in the background. With only a couple of photographs of him circulating online, the founder of Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek and quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Quant has long been a reclusive figure. But last week, a leaked transcript of a closed-door meeting with potential...
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Published: 26 July 2026
Source: SCMP Tech (HK/CN)
Category: News
Topics: Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 27 July 2026
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