Company Overview DeepSeek has evolved from a curious outlier in the global AI landscape into one of the most formidable forces in artificial intelligence. Founded with the mission to "unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity" and answer essential questions through long-termism, the Beijing-based startup has fundamentally disrupted the economics of frontier AI development. Unlike its Western counterparts, which rely heavily on massive capital expenditure and proprietary walled gardens, DeepSeek has championed an open-weight, cost-efficient approach that challenges the assumption that frontier performance requires exorbitant budgets. The company’s founding story is rooted in a desire to democratize access to high-end reasoning models. By leveraging efficient architectures like Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), DeepSeek demonstrated that it was possible to achieve state-of-the-art results without relying exclusively on US-made hardware. This philosophy has defined their trajectory from late 2024 to the present day.…