Technology

DeepSeek

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI research firm: they develop high-performance, cost-efficient, open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) that disrupt industry cost benchmarks.

DeepSeek, founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng (CEO and co-founder of High-Flyer), specializes in developing state-of-the-art, open-source LLMs from its Hangzhou, China headquarters. The company gained global recognition for its cost-effective approach: its flagship DeepSeek-R1 model, for example, was reportedly trained for a fraction of the cost of rivals like OpenAI's GPT-4. DeepSeek's product portfolio includes the reasoning-focused DeepSeek-R1, the multi-purpose DeepSeek-V3 (a 671B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model), and the specialized DeepSeek-Coder series. This innovation in training efficiency has positioned DeepSeek as a significant, disruptive competitor in the global AI landscape.