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DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab, spun out of the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, that develops and open-sources the DeepSeek-V and DeepSeek-R families of large language models.
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab, spun out of the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, that develops and open-sources the DeepSeek-V and DeepSeek-R families of large language models.
DeepSeek's January 2025 release of its R1 model, reported to have been trained at unusually low cost, prompted a broad reassessment of AI compute spending and a sharp, short-term drop in NVIDIA's stock price.
DeepSeek offers low-priced API access to its models and open-sources model weights; it is privately funded by High-Flyer and discloses no independent revenue figures.
China (Hangzhou)
Foundation models and AI laboratories. The organizations actually building the AI models themselves, like the systems behind ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. This is the most crowded, fastest-moving layer of the AI economy right now.
Connections (5)
Every connection below is tied to a readable source, date, classification and statement of its limits. A company source establishes what that company stated; it does not necessarily provide independent confirmation.
Current relationships (1)
Source: 2025-09-18 · reviewed 2026-09-22
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating
Limits: Does not establish any formal agreement or payment between DeepSeek and AWS beyond AWS hosting the open-weight model; DeepSeek has not itself confirmed involvement.
Alibaba's Qwen3 and DeepSeek-V3.1 models now available in Amazon Bedrock ↗Dated or announced (1)
Source: 2026-07-07 · reviewed 2026-09-20
Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported shifting away
Limits: Does not establish DeepSeek's current primary hardware supplier, purchase volumes, or whether any NVIDIA relationship is ongoing as of the review date.
Exclusive-China's DeepSeek Developing Its Own AI Chip, Sources Say ↗Comparisons (3)
Source: 2025-02-27 · reviewed 2026-09-20
Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Reported operating
Limits: Reflects Tencent's own comparative claim about a specific model release, not an independent benchmark or a statement about overall competitive position.
Tencent Fires Up AI Race With Model It Says Outdoes DeepSeek ↗Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20
Evidence: Analytical comparison · Reported operating
Limits: Based on overlapping product categories (general-purpose LLMs), not on a market-share or revenue comparison.
DeepSeek | Rise, Technologies, Impact, & Global Response ↗Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20
Evidence: Analytical comparison · Reported operating
Limits: Reflects overlapping product categories rather than a claim from either company about the other.
China's Top AI Models in 2026: DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, Doubao and the New AI Race ↗DeepSeek | Rise, Technologies, Impact, & Global Response ↗
Reviewed
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