DeepSeek Founder Liang Wen-feng:The God-Like Figure Who Shocked the World
Why is a small budget achieving big things?
Why is a small team winning against giants?
Can you believe it? An 80s-born programmer with long bangs and a work shirt, leading a team of 139 people, has stirred up the global AI world with 1% of the R&D cost of his international peers, making even international tech giants restless. This man, Liang Wen-feng, is neither from a major internet company nor a Silicon Valley returnee. Yet, he transitioned from the quantitative finance battlefield to the AI domain, achieving something monumental. Many believe that AI R&D requires burning money and large teams, but Liang Wen-feng refused to believe it. His company, DeepSeek, has rewritten the global artificial intelligence competitive landscape in an almost sci-fi manner, and has even open-sourced its core technology, allowing Chinese AI to stand at the forefront of global innovation for the first time. What secrets lie behind this?
Next, let's unveil the mystery of Liang Wen-feng and his DeepSeek, and see how he transformed from a "King of Quant" into an "AI Maniac," how he challenged industry giants with a unique model, and what impact he has brought to global AI development.
I. Cross-Industry Maverick: From the Financial Battlefield to the AI Arena
Liang Wen-feng's life trajectory is legendary. Born in 1985 into an ordinary teacher's family in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, he was fascinated by mathematical modeling from a young age. At 17, as the top scorer in the college entrance examination for Wuchuan No. 1 Middle School, he entered Zhejiang University. In the laboratory, he already showed astonishing technical talent; while others were studying classic algorithms from textbooks, he was already trying to use machine learning to predict stock trends.
During the 2008 global financial crisis, 23-year-old Liang Wen-feng entered the stock market with 80,000 RMB in capital, initiating a "money printing machine mode" with his self-developed quantitative models. In 2015, he co-founded Huanfang Quant with his classmate Xu Jin, replacing traditional fund managers with AI algorithms and entrusting trading decisions to server clusters. In 2019, he invested a hefty 200 million RMB to self-develop the "Firefly No. 1" deep learning platform. By 2021, their managed assets surpassed 100 billion RMB, making them one of China's "Four Heavenly Kings" in the private equity sector.
Yet, at the peak of quantitative funds' glory, in 2022, Liang Wen-feng made a decision that shook the industry: to invest all the money earned in the financial market into general artificial intelligence (AGI), which at the time showed no clear commercialization prospects. In July 2023, a company named "DeepSeek" was quietly registered in West Lake District, Hangzhou. No one expected that two years later, it would keep Silicon Valley awake at night.
In contrast, in the financial world of Europe and America, most of the giants who made a fortune in quantitative finance chose to continue to deep dive into financial markets. Few would cross over into the high-risk, uncertain field of AI fundamental research. For example, Renaissance Technologies in the United States, founded by "the father of quantitative investing" Jim Simons,
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