DeepSeek: The Chinese AI App which is disrupting the AI Sector.
1. Introduction DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company with its headquarters located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, who also co-founded the hedge fund High-Flyer. DeepSeek began as a High-Flyer research project before becoming a separate organisation dedicated to creating large language models (LLMs). The company's DeepSeek-R1 model, which was trained at a quarter of the cost and competed in performance with top AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4 , brought it global recognition in January 2025. Among DeepSeek's inventions are reinforcement learning methods and a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, which allow for scalability and effective use of resources. By focussing on affordable AI development and making its models publicly available, DeepSeek has established itself as a major force in the global AI market, challenging the dominance of Western IT gigantic companies. 2. What is DeepSeek AI? DeepSeek AI is a rapidly developing ar...