DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company from China, specializes in creating advanced large language models. Established recently by Liang Wenfeng, the company has made waves in the AI industry for its DeepSeek-R1 model. Impressively, DeepSeek has developed AI rivaling leading models like GPT-4 at a fraction of the cost and resource requirements. This breakthrough is particularly remarkable given the challenges faced for advanced AI chips, demonstrating DeepSeek's technological prowess in the global AI race.