Hangzhou DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm from China, specializes in developing advanced large language models. Founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, the company has gained attention in the tech sector for its DeepSeek-R1 model. Notably, DeepSeek has developed AI rivaling top competitors at a fraction of the cost and resource requirements. This achievement is particularly remarkable given the US sanctions on China for Nvidia processors, demonstrating DeepSeek's technological prowess in the competitive AI landscape.
