[Liang Wenfeng Enters China's Top Ten Richest for the First Time, Estimated Wealth of 280 Billion Yuan Surpasses Ding Lei] Beating AI News, October 27th – The Hurun Research Institute released the "2026 Hurun Rich List." Liang Wenfeng, the 41-year-old founder of DeepSeek, made his debut on the list, ranking seventh in China with an estimated wealth of 280 billion yuan, surpassing NetEase's Ding Lei and the Li Ka-shing family to become the wealthiest new entrant on the list this year. Liang Wenfeng was not on the list last year. Hurun explained that this was mainly because he had previously stated that he would not commercialize the company. However, DeepSeek began large-scale financing this year, completing its first round of financing in June, and its pre-investment valuation reached approximately 500 billion yuan in its second round of financing in August. In October, DeepSeek completed a 106 billion yuan financing round, with a post-investment valuation exceeding 600 billion yuan. However, the Hurun list uses September 1st as the wealth calculation cutoff date, and the 280 billion yuan is only an estimated personal wealth. AI is also rewriting the entire rich list. Zhang Yiming of ByteDance saw his wealth increase by 200 billion yuan, regaining his title as China's richest man with 670 billion yuan; Chen Tianshi of Cambricon entered the top ten with 205 billion yuan. Liu Debing and Tang Jie of Zhipu made their debut on the list with 39.5 billion yuan and 27.5 billion yuan respectively. According to Hurun's statistics, the wealth of more than 160 entrepreneurs on this year's list comes from the AI sector, accounting for about 10% of the total. [Original Link]