Hangzhou DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm based in Hangzhou, specializes in developing open-source large language models. Established recently by Liang Wenfeng, the company has gained attention in the tech sector for its latest AI developments. Impressively, DeepSeek claims to produce AI comparable to top competitors at a fraction of the cost and resource requirements. This achievement is particularly noteworthy given the US sanctions on China for Nvidia processors, demonstrating DeepSeek's technological prowess in the global AI race.