DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng will never sell: ex-quant founder doing it 'for the love of the game'
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-20
binjix notes DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is an already-rich ex-quant building DeepSeek purely for the love of it. teortaxesTex adds that the widely cited $46B is mostly DeepSeek itself, and that Liang will never sell — he needs total control to keep doing this kind of research.
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