Beating ChatGPT, the founder of DeepSeek, Liang Wenfeng, started from scratch and went through several key stages:

1. Academic Foundation

Childhood Exploration: Born in 1985 in a regular family in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, with parents who were elementary school teachers. From a young age, he was filled with curiosity about electronic devices, often disassembling and assembling them. His parents' encouragement helped him develop hands-on skills and an interest in technology through exploration.

Further Studies at Zhejiang University: In 2002, at the age of 17, Liang Wenfeng was admitted to the Electronic Information Engineering program at Zhejiang University as the top student from Wuchuan. During his time at university, he eagerly absorbed cutting-edge technology knowledge, developed solid programming skills and technical thinking. He also actively participated in national programming competitions, achieving excellent results through teamwork, gaining experience for future entrepreneurship.

2. Starting Quantitative Investment

Entering the Quantitative Field: After graduating from university in 2008, facing the turbulent market during the global financial crisis, Liang Wenfeng chose not to enter the telecommunications industry but instead returned home to embark on a path of quantitative investment. He transformed his room into a "laboratory," studying market trends and macroeconomic data, trying to find market patterns. Despite limited initial funds and immature strategies, and experiencing significant losses, he did not give up.

Mature Strategies Yield Profits: After years of exploration and failure, Liang Wenfeng gradually developed a unique quantitative investment strategy. With his quantitative trading strategy, he turned an initial capital of 80,000 yuan into 500 million, achieving an annualized return rate of 200%.

3. Entrepreneurial Development

Establishing Huansheng Quantitative: In 2015, he founded Hangzhou Huansheng Technology Co., Ltd., later renamed Zhejiang Jiuzhang Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Huansheng Quantitative). During the entrepreneurial process, the team faced many difficulties, such as market reversals and strategy failures, but Liang Wenfeng led the team to persist, continuously adjusting strategies. By 2017, Huansheng Quantitative achieved full AI integration of investment strategies, becoming an innovative pioneer in the field of quantitative investment. In 2021, the asset management scale of Huansheng exceeded 100 billion yuan.

4. Venturing into the AI Field

In 2023, Liang Wenfeng announced his entry into the general artificial intelligence field and founded DeepSeek. In 2024, he released the hybrid expert language models DeepSeek-V2 and DeepSeek-V3, whose open-source AI models had a wide-ranging impact globally.