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 ...

1 day ago · DeepSeek’s success embodies China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence. But it could also threaten the grip on power the nation’s leaders hold. Listen to this article · 8:02 min Learn more.

6 days ago · DeepSeek R1, the surprisingly efficient and powerful Chinese AI model, has taken the technology industry by storm and is rattling nerves on Wall Street.

4 days ago · Related article China celebrates DeepSeek’s breakout AI success as tech race heats up. DeepSeek’s V3 bot, released late last year weeks prior to R1, returns different answers, including ones ...

5 days ago · People across China are hailing the success of homegrown tech startup DeepSeek and its founder, after the company’s newest artificial intelligence model sent shock waves through Silicon Valley ...

3 days ago · Jacob Feldgoise, who studies AI talent in China at the CSET, says national policies that promote a model development ecosystem for AI will have helped companies such as DeepSeek, in terms of ...

6 days ago · What’s DeepSeek, China’s AI startup sending shockwaves through global tech? Chip giant Nvidia shed nearly $600bn in market value after Chinese AI model cast doubt on supremacy of US tech firms.

5 days ago · The debut of ChatGPT shook that confidence, and it led the Chinese government to ease up substantially on how strictly it regulated generative AI. China’s regulations on AI are still far more burdensome than anything in the United States, but there was a relative softening compared to the worst days of the tech crackdown. DeepSeek and several ...

6 days ago · DeepSeek is a start-up founded and owned by the Chinese stock trading firm High-Flyer. Its goal is to build A.I. technologies along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot or Google’s Gemini.

Jan 25, 2025 · A Star Hedge Fund in China. Even within the Chinese AI industry, DeepSeek is an unconventional player. It started as Fire-Flyer, a deep-learning research branch of High-Flyer, one of China’s ...