DeepSeek CEO becomes richest AI startup founder:Liang, who solved college math problems in 8th grade, has a net worth of ₹3.47 lakh crore

China’s AI company DeepSeek’s founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng (41) has become the world’s richest AI startup founder. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after the company’s new funding round, his net worth has reached approximately ₹3.47 lakh crore, which was previously ₹1.61 lakh crore. With this increase, he has surpassed OpenAI’s co-founder Greg Brockman and Anthropic’s founder and CEO Dario Amodei. Read stories from Liang’s life… Dedication – Liang was so immersed in AI models that he started living in a tent in an incomplete house Determination to understand every machine Liang was curious from childhood. Whatever computer or electronic machine he got his hands on in school, he would open it up and start fixing it. Many times he was scolded by family members and teachers for taking out parts and trying to fix them, but his habit didn’t change. This same determination later helped him in making AI chips. Became a math genius in school They started studying college-level mathematics in eighth grade itself. Once a teacher tested them with a college-level problem, but Liang solved it in just a few minutes. After this, they began to be called a ‘Math Genius’ at school. Parents played a significant role in this. Liang’s parents, who were teachers by profession, never put much emphasis on their son’s results or rank. They would simply ask ‘What new thing did you learn today?’ or ‘What new problem did you solve?’ They focused more on finding solutions to questions rather than memorizing answers. Bet on Chips In 2019, when companies were not taking AI seriously, Liang bought 10 thousand chips to build an AI model. People called it foolish and wasteful spending. Liang said, ‘Chips won’t be available in the AI era.’ Later, people understood this point. So immersed in AI model that they lived in a tent set up in an incomplete house Liang, with a Master’s in Engineering, was so passionate about his work that even after buying a new house, he didn’t get it completed. His entire focus was on coding and building AI models. For living, he set up a tent inside the incomplete house and started spending nights there. A few years later, the picture changed completely. After DeepSeek’s success in 2025, during Chinese New Year, welcome posters went up in his village Mililing. When Liang wasn’t available, people would take photos with his grandfather and leave.