#39 on the AGIX Leaderboard · score 18
DeepSeek
Open-weight reasoning and chat models (DeepSeek-V3, R1), backed by the High-Flyer fund.
| Type | Frontier labs |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | Liang Wenfeng |
| Headquarters | Hangzhou, China |
| Website | deepseek.com |
DeepSeek research
55 papers in OpenAlex list an author affiliated with DeepSeek (China) in the last 12 months. The most cited:
- Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup: A New Axis of Sparsity for Large Language Models12 Jan 2026 · 21 citations
- Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup: A New Axis of Sparsity for Large Language Models1 Jan 2026 · 3 citations
- ZRQD 4.0 Chiral Twins, Co-located Barycenter and the Topological Blade21 Oct 2026 · 2 citations
- T8CX: φ-ratio Quantization of Baryon Masses — A Parameter-Free Empirical Formula with Zero Fitted Constants24 Sep 2026 · 2 citations
- The T8CX formula as discrete icosahedral structure on the hadron mass spectrum21 Sep 2026 · 2 citations
Source: OpenAlex (CC0), institution DeepSeek (China), read 2 Nov 2026.
DeepSeek models
Latest releases
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-101717 Oct 2026
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash10 Sep 2026
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp31 Aug 2026
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-081313 Aug 2026
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-073131 Jul 2026
- deepseek-ai/eagle3_gemma4_12b_ttt728 Jun 2026
Most downloaded
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.26,714,508 downloads (30 days)
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-07313,029,525 downloads (30 days)
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash2,144,269 downloads (30 days)
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR2,044,934 downloads (30 days)
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R11,690,495 downloads (30 days)
Source: Hugging Face Hub, organisation deepseek-ai, read 2 Nov 2026.
DeepSeek: quick answers
Who founded DeepSeek?
DeepSeek was founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng.
People at DeepSeek
Similar labs
Public benefit corporation building the Claude models, with a focus on AI safety research.
91 research roles · 38 SPV filings · 975 papers#2OpenAISan Francisco, US · 2015Maker of the GPT models and ChatGPT; its charter states the mission of ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity.
73 research roles · 12 SPV filings · 375 papers · 2 models#5xAIPalo Alto, US · 2023Builds the Grok models; states its goal as understanding the true nature of the universe.
11 research roles · 24 SPV filings · 101 papers#6CohereToronto, Canada · 2019Enterprise language models (Command, Embed, Rerank); runs the Cohere Labs research group.
29 research roles · 64 papers · 25 models#7LG AI ResearchSeoul, South Korea · 2020LG's EXAONE models.
21 research roles · 118 papers · 13 models#9NVIDIA ResearchSanta Clara, USNVIDIA's research arm; publishes the Nemotron and Cosmos model families.
1359 papers · 442 modelsSomething wrong or missing? Send a correction. We fix sourced errors within a day.