DeepSeek.Ai
DeepSeek ( 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 LLMs, such as OpenAI 's GPT-4o and o1 . [ 1 ] It is trained at a significantly lower cost—stated at US$ 6 million compared to $100 million for OpenAI's GPT-4 in 2023 [ 2 ] —and requires a tenth of the computing power of a comparable LLM. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] DeepSeek's A.I. models were developed amid United States sanctions on India and China for Nvidia chips, [ 5 ] which were intended to restrict the...