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DeepSeek

Foundation Models

Chinese AI lab publishing large language and reasoning models with downloadable weights, its flagship V3.2 under the MIT licence.

Total funding$8B

Valuation$50B

Employees160

Founded2023

HeadquartersHangzhou, China

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• DeepSeek API Platform Model API Sold on its own

  API access to DeepSeek's chat and reasoning models.

• DeepSeek Application Sold on its own

  Assistant app for chat, reasoning and code questions, built on DeepSeek's own models.

• DeepSeek Harness Developer tool Sold on its own

  Open-source framework for building agents from composable plugins, distributed under the MIT license as a developer-preview initiative (install via `npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web` or clone from GitHub).

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Sources

Total funding

Third-party database · 27 Aug 2026

stockanalysis.com's own cumulative tally across its recorded funding rounds for this company, read 2026-08-27. The individual citation attached to this figure on the page is for the LATEST round only (the most recent round) and does not itself state the cumulative total — flagged and excluded rather than treated as verifying the sum.

Valuation

News reporting · 16 Jun 2026

DeepSeek Becomes China’s Most Valuable AI Startup After $7.4 Billion Fundraise, The Wall Street Journal, 2026-06-16. post-money valuation of the round dated 2026-06-16. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Employees

News reporting · 13 Mar 2025

DeepSeek focuses on research over revenue in contrast to Silicon Valley, Financial Times, 2025-03-13. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Founded

Wikipedia · 27 Aug 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field, read 2026-08-27.

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

"At low cost" is the half that went — it is a comparative claim about training or inference economics with no dated source behind it.

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