Hangzhou DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm from China, focuses on creating open-source large language models. Established recently by Liang Wenfeng, the company has gained attention in the AI industry for its DeepSeek-R1 model. Notably, DeepSeek claims to produce AI comparable to leading models like GPT-4 at a fraction of the cost and resource requirements. This achievement is particularly noteworthy given the challenges faced for advanced AI chips, demonstrating DeepSeek's technological prowess in the competitive AI landscape.