Hangzhou DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm based in Hangzhou, specializes in developing advanced large language models. Established recently by Liang Wenfeng, the company has made waves in the tech sector for its DeepSeek-R1 model. Impressively, DeepSeek has developed AI rivaling top competitors at a fraction of the cost and resource requirements. This breakthrough is particularly noteworthy given the US sanctions on China for Nvidia processors, demonstrating DeepSeek's technological prowess in the global AI race.