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.