DeepSeek
DeepSeek is an AI research company based in Hangzhou, China. Its founder is Liang Wenfeng. The company develops language models and publishes systems software for AI training and inference.
Sources
- Zhejiang University: Liang Wenfeng’s research background
- Hangzhou Information Office: DeepSeek founder at January 2025 roundtable
- DeepSeek Coder service agreement, effective October 2023
- DeepSeek Terms of Use, updated March 2026
- DeepSeek Chinese privacy policy and company identity
- DeepSeek LLM research paper, January 2024
- DeepSeek-R1 research paper and author record
- DeepSeek Fire-Flyer File System repository
- The Information: DeepSeek closed financing
- European Central Bank: historical reference exchange rates