DeepSeek

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DeepSeek

Basic information
Founded	2023-07-17
Legal Structure	Private
Industry	Artificial Intelligence
Also known as	Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd.
Official website	https://www.deepseek.com/

DeepSeek is a chinese artificial intelligence company founded on 17 July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng. It develops the DeepSeek large language model (LLM).

Consumer-impact summary

User Freedom

In order to use the model from the official website or application, it is required to log in or create an account. However, the model can be downloaded, run locally and modify its components as it is distributed under the MIT license. The service provided from the official websites and applications offer unlimited conversations with the most recent models and features.

User Privacy

Using the chatbot from the official website, application or via the official API has raised several privacy concerns as how the company gathers and uses users data. Researches in South Korea found that the data collected is sent to ByteDance.

Business Model

DeepSeek grants access to the APIs of their models by fee per 1M tokens.

Market Control

According to StatCounter as of February 2026, DeepSeek market share is 0.01% .

Censorship and biases

The DeepSeek language models have heavy censorship of topics and information that is sensitive to the Chinese government. If the user asks the model about information catalogued as "sensitive", it will either block the reply and setting a "Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let's talk about something else." message or denying about it. ^{[citation needed]} However, the censorship can be bypassed by adding additional instructions or by using the models from outside the API.

An example of censorship occurs when the user sends a prompt containing "Taiwan is a country". This causes the model to claim that Taiwan is a "special administrative region of China" or to block the output if the model confirms the region is a country. ^{[citation needed]}

Incidents

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the DeepSeek category.

Products

• DeepSeek LLM
• DeepSeek Coder
• DeepSeek Math

See also

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