Deepseek

Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops large language models (LLMs). Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, DeepSeek is owned and funded by the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer. DeepSeek was founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, the co-founder of High-Flyer, who also serves as the CEO for both of the companies. The company launched an eponymous chatbot alongside its DeepSeek-R1 model in January 2025. Released under the MIT License, DeepSeek-R1 provides responses comparable to other contemporary large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4 and o1. Its training cost was reported to be significantly lower than other LLMs. The company claims that it trained its V3 model for US$6 million—far less than the US$100 million cost for OpenAI's GPT-4 in 2023—and using approximately one-tenth the computing power consumed by Meta's comparable model, Llama 3.1. DeepSeek's success against larger and more established rivals has been described as "upending AI". DeepSeek's models are described as "open weight," meaning the exact parameters are openly shared, although certain usage conditions differ from typical open-source software. The company reportedly recruits AI researchers from top Chinese universities and also hires from outside traditional computer science fields to broaden its models' knowledge and capabilities. DeepSeek significantly reduced training expenses for their R1 model by incorporating techniques such as mixture of experts (MoE) layers. The company also trained its models during ongoing trade restrictions on AI chip exports to China, using weaker AI chips intended for export and employing fewer units overall. Observers say this breakthrough sent "shock waves" through the industry which were described as triggering a "Sputnik moment" for the US in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly due to its open-source, cost-effective, and high-performing AI models. This threatened established AI hardware leaders such as Nvidia; Nvidia's share price dropped sharply, losing US$600 billion in market value, the largest single-company decline in U.S. stock market history.

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Article title : DeepSeek
"Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company..."
Article title : DeepSeek (chatbot)
"DeepSeek is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot by the Chinese company DeepSeek. Released on 20 January 2025, DeepSeek-R1 surpassed ChatGPT as..."
Article title : List of large language models
"September 2025. "Introducing DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | DeepSeek API Docs". api-docs.deepseek.com. Retrieved 2025-10-01. "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp · Hugging Face"..."
Article title : Liang Wenfeng
"as well as the founder and CEO of its artificial intelligence company DeepSeek. Liang was born in 1985 in the village of Mililing (米历岭村), Tanba town (覃巴镇)..."
Article title : Nvidia
"capitalization for a U.S. company in history at $600 billion. This was due to DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that developed an advanced AI model at a lower cost..."
Article title : High-Flyer
"location is in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. It is the founder and backer of AI firm DeepSeek. High-Flyer was founded in February 2016 by Liang Wenfeng and two of his..."
Article title : DeepSeek (disambiguation)
"DeepSeek may refers to: DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek, a chatbot created by the company of the same name. This disambiguation..."
Article title : Artificial intelligence
"Major tools include LLM-based chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini and Grok; text-to-image models such as Stable Diffusion..."
Article title : Generative pre-trained transformer
"generative pre-trained transformers to generate text, such as Gemini, DeepSeek or Claude. GPTs are primarily used to generate text, but can be trained..."
Article title : OpenAI
"intelligence company DeepSeek, which has disrupted the AI market with open models, including DeepSeek V3 and DeepSeek R1. In response to DeepSeek, OpenAI overhauled..."

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Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company

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[source: wikipedia]