Founded by Liang Wenfeng as a spin-off from High-Flyer hedge fund
Released first model: DeepSeek Coder (open-source)
Released DeepSeek-MoE models optimized for efficiency
Launched DeepSeek-V2 models with strong performance & lower costs
Released DeepSeek-V3 with 671B parameters
DeepSeek R1 app launched, surpassing ChatGPT as #1 in App Store