Question 1

What is DeepSeek known for?

Accepted Answer

Frontier-class open-weight models trained cheaply: DeepSeek-V3's efficient MoE and R1's open reasoning recipe. Landmarks: DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models (GRPO) (2024); DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model (2024); DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report (2024); DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning (2025).

Question 2

Who leads DeepSeek?

Accepted Answer

Liang Wenfeng, Founder.

Question 3

What kind of organization is DeepSeek?

Accepted Answer

Startup lab within High-Flyer, founded in 2023, based in Hangzhou.

Year	Contribution	Source
2024	DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models (GRPO)arxiv.org	arxiv.org
2024	DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Modelarxiv.org	arxiv.org
2024	DeepSeek-V3 Technical Reportarxiv.org	arxiv.org
2025	DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learningarxiv.org	arxiv.org

Date	Paper
Sep 2026	DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression
Jan 2025	DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Where	Link
Website	deepseek.com
Blog	api-docs.deepseek.com/news
GitHub	deepseek-ai
Hugging Face	deepseek-ai
X	@deepseek_ai
Papers	Lab page on Papers
Models	1 ranked model on Models
Companies	DeepSeek across fru.dev

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