DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has made his debut on the _2025 Hurun World Wealthy List_, launched on March 27. The 40-year-old entrepreneur joins the rankings with an estimated fortune of RMB 33 billion ($4.6 billion), whereas OpenAI CEO Sam Altman enters with RMB 13 billion ($1.8 billion). Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman of Hurun, famous that Liang holds over 80% of DeepSeek. If the corporate reaches OpenAI’s $1 trillion valuation, he might develop into China’s richest individual, a title newly held by ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming. Born in Guangdong, Liang studied at Zhejiang College and later constructed a profession in quantitative finance. In 2015, he based Excessive-Flyer Quant, one in all China’s high quant funds, earlier than launching DeepSeek in 2023 to enter the AI sector. In the meantime, Xiaomi founder Lei Jun noticed his wealth greater than double to RMB 220 billion ($30.4 billion), making him one in all China’s high 10 richest people for the primary time. Xiaomi lately introduced a $5.4 billion share sale for growth and R&D, following its massively profitable EV launch. Lei presently holds a 24.1% stake within the firm, which can drop barely after the fundraising. [Jiemian, in Chinese]

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