DeepSeek

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI research lab spun out of the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management, focused on developing frontier open-weight large language models. The company is best known for its DeepSeek R1 reasoning model and its V3 series of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models, which have achieved performance competitive with leading proprietary models at significantly lower training costs. DeepSeek releases its models openly, gaining widespread adoption in the global AI research and developer community.