--- title: DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng overtakes Amodei and Brockman... description: DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has become the wealthiest AI founder according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a net worth of approximately $36bn... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/deepseek-s-liang-wenfeng-overtakes-amodei-and-brockman-as-ai-s-richest-founder-vwgk6iowl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng overtakes Amodei and Brockman as AI’s richest founder | daily.dev og:description: DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has become the wealthiest AI founder according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a net worth of approximately $36bn... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/deepseek-s-liang-wenfeng-overtakes-amodei-and-brockman-as-ai-s-richest-founder-vwgk6iowl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VWGK6Iowl.png og:image:alt: DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng overtakes Amodei and Brockman as AI’s richest founder og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng overtakes Amodei and Brockman as AI’s richest founder **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has become the wealthiest AI founder according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a net worth of approximately $36bn after a $19bn overnight revaluation. This follows DeepSeek's $7.4bn funding round in June — its first-ever outside raise — which valued the Hangzhou lab at roughly $50bn. Liang contributed about $3bn of his own money (40% of the round) from profits at his quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer. Despite the dilution, he retains around 78% of DeepSeek. The round was reportedly oversubscribed despite unusual terms that gave investors no governance rights. Liang has stated the lab's primary goal is AGI, with a continued commitment to open-source model releases rather than near-term commercialization. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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