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Liang Wenfeng
Founder & CEO
Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer and founded DeepSeek in 2023, which he leads as CEO. DeepSeek's low-cost open models, notably R1 in January 2025, shook the global AI industry.
Events (10)
10 Sep 2026
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash with native vision
Model release13 Aug 2026
DeepSeek V4-Pro leaves preview
Model release24 Apr 2026
DeepSeek releases V4 preview with 1M-token context
Open source1 Dec 2025
DeepSeek releases V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale
Model release21 Aug 2025
DeepSeek releases V3.1 hybrid thinking model
Model release27 Jan 2025
DeepSeek R1 triggers stock market selloff
Company20 Jan 2025
DeepSeek releases R1 reasoning model
Open source26 Dec 2024
DeepSeek releases V3 open model
Open source17 Jun 2024
DeepSeek releases Coder V2
Open source11 Jun 2024