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2026-07-25

Liang Wenfeng Is Now the World's Richest AI Founder — By Doing the Opposite of Every Big Tech Giant

Bloomberg's data: DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is worth $36 billion, doubled in a year, surpassing the co-founders of OpenAI and Anthropic to become the richest person in pure AI foundation models. From a product manager's angle, here's why his 'narrow and deep' bet outran the giants stacking money and headcount.

2026-07-24

3.17 Million in Bonus, But Not Even the Freedom to Show It Off

A project lead on Tencent's WeChat line had a year-end incentive of about 3.17 million yuan and was rated Outstanding twice. He posted a screenshot of his pay — and days later was fired, blacklisted, and marked never-to-be-rehired. Let's talk about Big Tech's high-voltage lines, and one gut-punch of a truth: the money you break your back to earn — you don't even fully own the freedom to show it off.

2026-07-23

Alibaba Is Doing the Math, Tencent Is Paying Tuition: A PM's Read on the Big-Tech AI Split

Both poured 100 billion yuan into AI. In Q1 2026, Alibaba's cloud AI revenue crossed 30% of external revenue for the first time, while Tencent lost about 8.8 billion yuan. But Tencent wasn't idle either — WorkBuddy became the No.1 office agent. From a product manager's angle, here's the split between the two AI strategies, and where they go next.