Overview
Founder of deepseek and previously of hedge fund Zhejiang High-Flyer Asset Management. Controls majority equity and voting rights in DeepSeek; among the world’s richest AI-model creators after the June 2026 funding round.
Recent Developments
- 2026-07-25: Second DeepSeek fundraising verbally paused after viral posts attributed to his private investor-meeting remarks on Nvidia reliance and US–China AI gap (2026-07-26-deepseek-bloomberg-yahoo-funding-pause)
- 2026-06: First outside round ~36B (Bloomberg Billionaires Index)
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