DeepSeek

DeepSeek's business model centers on providing powerful AI solutions that are accessible to a broad audience, challenging the high-cost, proprietary models from competitors. The company generates revenue through competitively priced API access to its models, while also leveraging its AI expertise and GPU infrastructure for quantitative trading. Its open-source approach allows developers and researchers free access to its model weights, fostering community-driven innovation and wider adoption. The company provides multiple services including a web interface, mobile application, and API access.

The company has released a series of generative AI models, starting with DeepSeek Coder in November 2023, designed for coding tasks. A key innovation is their use of a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, which activates only a subset of a model's parameters for a given task, significantly reducing computational costs and improving efficiency. Their models, such as DeepSeek-V2 and DeepSeek-Coder-V2, demonstrate strong performance in coding, mathematical reasoning, and general language tasks, often rivaling leading closed-source models. DeepSeek-Coder-V2 supports over 338 programming languages and features a large context window.