01.AI vs DeepSeek

01.AI — Foundation Models · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced  |  DeepSeek — Foundation Models · Private · $50B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Yi and DeepSeek API Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 7 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, model inference and text generation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application and model API.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

Field01.AIDeepSeek
Sizenot disclosed$50B valuation
Employees—160
Founded20232023 match
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryFoundation ModelsFoundation Models match
Stack layerApplication, Model API, PlatformApplication, Developer tool, Model API
HeadquartersBeijing, ChinaHangzhou, China

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agent orchestrationModel inferenceText generation

Not verified for DeepSeek · 4

Data analysisFinancial analysisSales outreachWorkflow automation

Recorded for 01.AI. DeepSeek’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for 01.AI · 3

Agentic codingCode generationSummarization

Recorded for DeepSeek. 01.AI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

01.AI

Application

Boss AIApplication

Agent product for executives that turns company data into tracked decisions and action items.

Investor AIApplication

A decision platform for investment, M&A and strategic-opportunity judgment that integrates market, financial and research data, validates investment theses, and surfaces due-diligence risks for investment committees.

TopSales AIApplication

Agent product for sales teams covering lead research, outreach and follow-up.

Model API

YiModel API

01.AI's open-weight large language model family (Yi-6B/9B/34B, including 200K-context variants), released under Apache 2.0 for commercial and research use; also served through 01.AI's own hosted platform, platform.lingyiwanwu.com, whose playground access is by whitelist application rather than public self-serve.

DeepSeek

Application

DeepSeekApplication

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

Model API

DeepSeek API PlatformModel API

API access to DeepSeek's chat and reasoning models.

No counterpart

01.AI sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for DeepSeek yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

TrueNorth AI Decision PlatformPlatform

Platform for building enterprise decision and analysis agents on 01.AI's models.

DeepSeek sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for 01.AI yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Developer tool

DeepSeek HarnessDeveloper tool

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).