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title: "DeepSeek: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: ", doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops open weights large language models (LLMs). Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, DeepSeek is owned and funded by High-Flyer, a Chinese hedge fund."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-deepseek
type: Organization
wikidata: Q131577453
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek
website: https://deepseek.com
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# DeepSeek

> , doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops open weights large language models (LLMs). Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, DeepSeek is owned and funded by High-Flyer, a Chinese hedge fund.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-deepseek

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: People's Republic of China
- Founded: 2023-05-01
- Headquarters: Hangzhou
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://deepseek.com
- Also known as: deepseek.com, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd.
- Industries: artificial intelligence, information technology

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/deepseek_ai
- github: https://github.com/deepseek-ai

## Key people

- Liang Wenfeng, founder (Chinese businessman (born 1985))

## Ownership

Parent: High-Flyer

## Products

- DeepSeek

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on DeepSeek, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-deepseek#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131577453, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek

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