4 days ago · People across China are hailing the success of homegrown tech startup DeepSeek and its founder, after the company’s newest artificial intelligence model sent shock waves through Silicon Valley ...

2 days ago · Jacob Feldgoise, who studies AI talent in China at the CSET, says national policies that promote a model development ecosystem for AI will have helped companies such as DeepSeek, in terms of ...

DeepSeek (Chinese: 深度求索; pinyin: Shēndù Qiúsuǒ) is a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops open-source large language models (LLMs). Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, it is owned and funded by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, whose co-founder, Liang Wenfeng, established the company in 2023 and serves as its CEO.

3 days ago · The debut of ChatGPT shook that confidence, and it led the Chinese government to ease up substantially on how strictly it regulated generative AI. China’s regulations on AI are still far more burdensome than anything in the United States, but there was a relative softening compared to the worst days of the tech crackdown. DeepSeek and several ...

5 days ago · The performance of DeepSeek R1, however, does suggest that China is much closer to the frontier of AI than previously thought, and that open-source models have just about caught up to their closed ...

Jan 25, 2025 · A Star Hedge Fund in China. Even within the Chinese AI industry, DeepSeek is an unconventional player. It started as Fire-Flyer, a deep-learning research branch of High-Flyer, one of China’s ...

4 days ago · DeepSeek is “AI’s Sputnik moment,” Marc Andreessen, a tech venture capitalist, ... Does DeepSeek’s tech mean that China is now ahead of the United States in A.I.? No. The world has not yet ...

4 days ago · DeepSeek’s success has abruptly forced a wedge between Americans most directly invested in outcompeting China and those who benefit from any access to the best, most reliable AI models.

5 days ago · DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial-intelligence startup that’s just over a year old, has stirred awe and consternation in Silicon Valley after demonstrating AI models that offer comparable ...

4 days ago · But DeepSeek’s results show that China has advanced A.I. capabilities that can match or exceed models from OpenAI and other American A.I. companies, and that breakthroughs made by U.S. firms may ...