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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's net worth hit $16.7 billion after raising over $7.4 billion, making him the world's wealthiest AI model creator.

Liang is now worth $36 billion, up from about $16.7 billion previously, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That ranks him well above Anthropic PBC co-founder Dario…