DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company based in Hangzhou, founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng and owned by the hedge fund High-Flyer. It is known for the open-weight DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 models and their successors, along with a chat app and API.
- Founded
- 2023
- Type
- Private company
- Founder
- Liang Wenfeng
- AI lab
- Inference provider
- 2 hosted endpoints
Model family

DeepSeek R
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company based in Hangzhou, founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng and owned by the hedge fund High-Flyer. It is known for the open-weight DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 models and their successors, along with a chat app and API.
Latest DeepSeek R models
Models in this family
3 catalogued models
3 models · 1–3
| Select models to compare | Model | Released | Context | Input /M | Output /M | Parameters | Type | I/O | Openness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2025 | 131K | — | — | 8B | Text | text → text | Open weights | ||
| May 28, 2025 | 164K | $0.50 | $2.15 | 685B | Text | text → text | Open weights | ||
| January 20, 2025 | 131K | — | — | 32B | Text | text → text | Open weights |