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DeepSeek

DeepSeek is a family of large language models from DeepSeek AI, known for its strong performance and open-source availability.

TECHNICAL DEFINITION

DeepSeek is a family of large language models developed by DeepSeek AI, built on a transformer architecture and trained on a vast corpus of text and code, offering competitive performance on benchmarks and providing open-source models for various applications, including coding tasks.

BACKGROUND

Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops 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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SYNONYMS & ALIASES

  • DeepSeek AI
  • DeepSeek-Coder

USAGE NOTE

DeepSeek models are particularly noted for their coding capabilities, making them valuable for software development and code generation tasks.

DEVELOPERS

Organizations developing technology related to DeepSeek.

  • DeepSeek AI

    The company that created and develops the DeepSeek family of large language models, including DeepSeek-V2 and DeepSeek Coder. They focus on advancing open-source AI research and building powerful, efficient models.

  • Hugging Face

    An open-source platform that hosts the DeepSeek models, making them accessible to the global developer community. They provide tools, libraries, and infrastructure for fine-tuning and deploying these models.

  • Together AI

    A cloud platform providing infrastructure for training, fine-tuning, and running generative AI models. They offer optimized inference for DeepSeek models, enabling developers to build applications on top of them at scale.

  • LMSYS Org

    A research organization that runs the Chatbot Arena, a key platform for benchmarking and evaluating large language models through anonymous, randomized battles. DeepSeek's models are frequently evaluated on this platform, providing crucial performance data.

  • Replicate

    A cloud platform that allows developers to run open-source machine learning models via an API. They host and provide access to the DeepSeek model family, simplifying their integration into applications.

  • Fireworks.ai

    A production inference platform that offers high-speed API access to various open-source generative AI models. They provide highly optimized services for running DeepSeek models for application developers.

  • Anyscale

    Provides an end-to-end platform for scaling AI and Python applications. They offer enterprise-grade inference endpoints for high-performance open-source models, including those from DeepSeek.

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