deepseek

DeepSeek[a] (Chinese: 深度求索; pinyin: Shēndù Qiúsuǒ) is a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops open-source large language models (LLMs). Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, it is owned and funded by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, whose co-founder, Liang Wenfeng, established the company in 2023 and serves as its CEO.

The DeepSeek-R1 model provides responses comparable to other contemporary large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4o and o1 It is trained at a significantly lower cost-stated at US$6 million compared to $100 million for OpenAI's GPT-4 in 2023-and approximately a tenth of the computing power used for Meta's comparable model, LLaMA 3.1.DeepSeek's AI models were developed amid United States sanctions on India and China for Nvidia chips, which were intended to restrict the ability of these two countries to develop advanced AI systems.

DeepSeek makes its generative artificial intelligence algorithms, models, and training details open-source, allowing its code to be freely available for use, modification, viewing, and designing documents for building purposes.However, reports indicate that the API version hosted in China applies content restrictions in accordance with local regulations, limiting responses on topics such as the Tiananmen Square massacre and Taiwan's status.The company reportedly vigorously recruits young AI researchers from top Chinese universities,and hires from outside the computer science field to diversify its models' knowledge and abilities.