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Founder, DeepSeek
Liang Wenfeng founded DeepSeek and previously built High-Flyer’s quantitative finance business. A Zhejiang University alumnus, he is associated with the research organization behind the DeepSeek model family. His influence combines funding choices, research direction and an emphasis on openly available model work. Published papers also credit him as a co-author; those credits reflect collective research rather than sole authorship.
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Liang Wenfeng founded DeepSeek and previously built High-Flyer’s quantitative finance business. A Zhejiang University alumnus, he is associated with the research organization behind the DeepSeek model family. His influence combines funding choices, research direction and an emphasis on openly available model work. Published papers also credit him as a co-author; those credits reflect collective research rather than sole authorship.
- Current work
- Founder, DeepSeek
- Also known for
- High-Flyer; open model research
- Education
- Zhejiang University
- Research
- Language models; code models; AI infrastructure
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Co-authors DeepSeek Elastic Compute
The DSec paper studies sandbox infrastructure for large-scale agent training. Its author list includes Liang; the work concerns infrastructure supporting research, rather than a personal product launch.
Source: DeepSeek research paper ↗Co-authors the DeepSeek-V3.2 report
The technical report documents the V3.2 model family and its training methods. Liang is one of the credited authors in a large collaborative research team.
Source: DeepSeek research paper ↗Co-authors a study of AI hardware bottlenecks
The paper discusses hardware constraints encountered during DeepSeek-V3 development and potential directions for computation, interconnects and infrastructure. Liang appears on its author list.
Source: DeepSeek research paper ↗Participates in the premier’s roundtable
Liang joins experts and entrepreneurs discussing the draft Government Work Report. Hangzhou’s official account identifies him as DeepSeek’s founder and a Zhejiang University alumnus.
Source: Hangzhou government ↗Co-authors DeepSeek-Coder-V2
The research introduces a mixture-of-experts code model and reports coding and mathematical evaluations. Liang is credited alongside the wider DeepSeek research team.
Source: DeepSeek research paper ↗Co-authors the DeepSeek LLM report
The early DeepSeek language-model paper describes model scaling and open-source research. Liang appears among the authors, documenting his involvement in the organization’s published model work.
Source: DeepSeek research paper ↗
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