{"id":"clm_F5B997DEED0D","entity":"deepseek","predicate":"ceo","value":"Liang Wenfeng","value_json":{"note":"TIME's 2025 profile calls Liang Wenfeng CEO of DeepSeek. The page gives no start date for the role, and I did not find a newer page than 2025.","check":{"by":"research, quote read on the page","on":"2026-11-08","url":"https://www.csis.org/analysis/deepseek-huawei-export-controls-and-future-us-china-ai-race","quote":"Cofounded in 2015 by Liang Wenfeng, who is also the founder and CEO of DeepSeek","outcome":"checked"},"verdict":"found","dated_by":"founding date (clm_06092A8C9172): founder and CEO since the start","verified":"2026-11-01","redated_on":"2026-11-08","missing_basic":true,"was_valid_from":"1900-01-01"},"valid_from":"2023-07-17","valid_to":null,"published":"2025-01-24","recorded":"2026-11-01","citation":{"plain":"AsOf. \"DeepSeek ceo: Liang Wenfeng\", as of 2023-07-17. Claim clm_F5B997DEED0D, https://asof.is/claim/clm_F5B997DEED0D, accessed 2026-11-09. Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/24/1110526/china-deepseek-top-ai-despite-sanctions/.","url":"https://asof.is/claim/clm_F5B997DEED0D","accessed":"2026-11-09"},"confidence":0.6,"status":"valid","assertable":true,"superseded_by":null,"supersedes":[],"first_seen_at":"2026-11-01T14:22:48.042286+00:00","updated_at":"2026-11-08T21:41:30.342488+00:00","sources":[{"url":"https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/24/1110526/china-deepseek-top-ai-despite-sanctions/","tier":"secondary","publisher":"MIT Technology Review","published_at":"2025-01-24T00:00:00+00:00"},{"url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305843/liang-wenfeng-ai/","tier":"secondary","publisher":"time.com","published_at":"2025-08-27T00:00:00+00:00"},{"url":"https://www.csis.org/analysis/deepseek-huawei-export-controls-and-future-us-china-ai-race","tier":"secondary","publisher":"CSIS","published_at":"2025-03-07T00:00:00+00:00"}],"evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-11-08","quote":"Cofounded in 2015 by Liang Wenfeng, who is also the founder and CEO of DeepSeek","url":"https://www.csis.org/analysis/deepseek-huawei-export-controls-and-future-us-china-ai-race"},"legend":{"dates":"valid_from: when the claim took effect (a period figure: the day its period closed). published: the earliest day a source on the record published it (a filing's filing date, a post's date; null when no source carries one). recorded: the day AsOf first held it. A figure can take effect weeks before it is published.","citation":"citation: how to cite the row (plain: one sentence with the value, its as-of date, the claim id and URL, the day answered and the primary source; url: the claim page; accessed: the day answered). APA and BibTeX forms are on the claim page.","why_not":{},"checked_by":{"page-read":"its source page states the value and the date"}}}