DeepSeek was founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, a Chinese entrepreneur born in 1985 in Guangdong.

DeepSeek achieved this with a development cost of just $6 million, significantly lower than the hundreds of millions typically spent by competitors

DeepSeek employs a technique called "mixture of experts," which activates only the necessary computing resources for a given task

Demonstrating a commitment to transparency and collaboration, DeepSeek has made its models available as open source.