DeepSeek is a foundation-model developer in the AI industry, founded in 2023. Its products cover language.
It was last valued at $50B, having raised $7.5B in equity. It employs around 300 people. Its products reach about 10M active users.
Every figure here comes from a dated public report rather than a company disclosure to us, and different sources often disagree — the timeline below keeps each report separate instead of averaging them away.