DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng becomes the world’s richest AI founder

DeepSeek Founder Liang Wenfeng has become the world's richest artificial intelligence startup founder, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His net worth rose to $36 billion after DeepSeek's latest funding round lifted the company's valuation to $50 billion. Liang has overtaken Anthropic Co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Greg Brockman in AI-related wealth.