Everyone seems to be talking about DeepSeek, and its latest AI
technologies. But what is DeepSeek? What has it produced? And why
is everyone talking about them? This client update is intended to
provide some of the basic facts around DeepSeek and identify a few
new issues and opportunities that may be relevant to corporate
cybersecurity and AI adoption efforts.
Who is DeepSeek?
DeepSeek is an arm of a Chinese hedge fund known as
"High-Flyer."1 One of the co-founders of
High-Flyer, Liang Wenfeng, founded DeepSeek to make generally
applicable generative AI models. Its first model was released on
November 2, 2023.2 But the models that gained them
notoriety in the United States are two most recent releases, V3, a
general large language model ("LLM"), and R1, a
"reasoning" model. According to DeepSeek's benchmark
scores, these new models provide strong performance across the
board – including approaching or exceeding US frontier models
in many key areas. For example,
