DeepSeek

Chinese artificial intelligence company

Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops open weights large language models (LLMs). Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, DeepSeek is owned and funded by High-Flyer, a Chinese hedge fund. DeepSeek was founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, who serves as the CEO for both of the companies. The company launched an eponymous chatbot alongside its DeepSeek-R1 model in January 2025.

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DeepSeek Developing Own AI Chip

DeepSeek Developing Own AI Chip Chinese AI leader DeepSeek is designing its own inference chip, escalating US-China tech tensions.