DeepSeek
DeepSeek develops open-weights large language models. It is owned and funded by the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer.
PrivateHangzhou, Zhejiang, ChinaAI labsChina band
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Buys from NVIDIA
DeepSeek's founder stockpiled about 10,000 NVIDIA A100 GPUs before US export limits.
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Anthropic is flagged with DeepSeek
In February 2026 Anthropic accused DeepSeek of using fraudulent accounts to generate conversations with Claude to train its own models. This is an allegation.