Hangzhou DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company from China, focuses on creating advanced large language models. Established recently by Liang Wenfeng, the company has gained attention in the AI industry for its DeepSeek-R1 model. Notably, DeepSeek claims to produce AI rivaling 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 competitive AI landscape.