Hong Kong – DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng’s net worth more than doubled after his firm’s most recent fundraising round, making the Chinese entrepreneur the world’s richest among creators of AI models. Liang is now worth US$36 billion (S$46.5 billion), up from about US$16.7 billion previously, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That ranks him well above OpenAI president Greg Brockman (No 100), with an estimated net worth of US$25.5 billion, and Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei’s (No 491) whose fortune stands at US$7.98 billion. Ironically, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Samuel Altman did not even make Bloomberg’s list of the Top 500…
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