AI Names · Frontier labs & chatbots
DeepSeek
Private
DeepSeek is the Hangzhou lab that reset the cost conversation. The models are public enough to copy. The company is not listed.
- Site
- deepseek.com
- Who
- Liang Wenfeng, Founder
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