DeepSeek’s latest funding round pushes Liang Wenfeng’s net worth past Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman

Odaily reported that, according to foreign media, after DeepSeek completed its latest funding round, founder Liang Wenfeng’s personal wealth more than doubled, making him the richest among global AI large model founders. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Liang Wenfeng is now worth $36 billion (previously around $16.7 billion), surpassing Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman. This comparison only covers companies whose main business and most revenue directly comes from AI large models, excluding diversified large tech groups like Alibaba and Tencent, as well as companies in the AI industry chain such as data centers and semiconductors. The vast majority of Liang Wenfeng’s wealth comes from his controlling stake in DeepSeek.

In June of this year, DeepSeek reportedly completed a 50 billion yuan funding round, valuing the company at over 330 billion yuan, with Liang Wenfeng personally contributing 20 billion yuan. According to calculations by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his shareholding was diluted to approximately 78%. (Jin Shi)