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...

By Coco Feng