Hangzhou DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm from China, focuses on creating advanced large language models. Founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, the company has made waves in the AI industry for its DeepSeek-R1 model. Impressively, DeepSeek has developed AI rivaling top competitors at a fraction of the cost and resource requirements. This achievement is particularly noteworthy given the US sanctions on China for advanced AI chips, demonstrating DeepSeek's technological prowess in the global AI race.
