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.

Bussiness Model

DeepSeek grants access to the API of their models by paying a monthly fee.

Incidents

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Mobile application collecting user data

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Products

• DeepSeek LLM
• DeepSeek Coder
• DeepSeek Math

See also

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