DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng’s fortune rises to $36 billion

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng now has an estimated net worth of $36 billion, more than double his previous estimate of $16.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The increase makes Liang the wealthiest founder among companies whose primary business is AI models, according to Bloomberg’s comparison. He now ranks above Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman.