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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, the co-founder of High-Flyer, who also 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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