What kind of person is DeepSeek’s founder, Liang Wenfeng? An answer from his old university classmate.

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Author: 清风学渣 Link: https://www.zhihu.com/question/10967114707/answer/1904046054904665233 Source: Zhihu Copyright belongs to the author. For commercial reprints, please contact the author for authorization. For non-commercial reprints, please indicate the source. I’ve seen a lot of discussions about Liang Wenfeng online. Yesterday, I happened to be on the phone with a close friend from my university year, and we talked about him too. So here, I’ll shamelessly piggyback[1] on the fame of my old university classmate, Liang Wenfeng. Some netizens wanted to know what Liang Wenfeng was like during his undergraduate years before he got into investment and the AI industry, so this answer is to satisfy a little bit of that curiosity. I hope these “revelations”[2] won’t affect Mr. Liang's privacy. If they do, please remind me, and the author[3] will modify or delete the post. The author and Liang Wenfeng were both in the Electronic & Information Engineering program, Class of ‘02, at Zhejiang University.[4] We weren’t in the same class but participated in the same Electronics Design Contest. Although we had some contact during our four years as classmates, we weren’t in the same dorm or class, so my impressions of him are limited and fragmented. Impression 1: In our [...] The original text contained 19 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 23rd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nyuGJDwL83ggGeoYu/what-kind-of-person-is-deepseek-s-founder-liang-wenfeng-an --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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