Liang Wenfeng, founder of DeepSeek, has become the world's richest AI founder, with reports indicating his fortune is valued at $36 billion. The development is reportedly linked to a significant fundraising round, though the exact amount of the round is unclear, with figures ranging from $7.4 billion to a first funding round of 51 billion yuan. Liang Wenfeng's new status as the world's richest AI founder is widely reported, though details of the funding round vary across sources.