2026-10-13
100 Product Managers Who Changed the World · #28: Liang Wenfeng
Founder of quantitative fund High-Flyer and architect of DeepSeek. Uncomfortable with Silicon Valley-style evangelism, he led a small team of engineers to crush AI pricing monopolies with Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), FP8 mixed-precision, and hyper-efficient training — and with DeepSeek-R1's pure reinforcement learning reasoning, gave Silicon Valley its first genuine existential anxiety from native Chinese innovation. Ranked
