When OpenAI, Google, and other tech giants monopolized cutting-edge AI research with capital and computing power advantages, a Chinese company born in Hangzhou on July 17, 2023, was breaking through with a different approach — DeepSeek (Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd.), officially launched in Huijin International Building, Gongshu District. Founded by quantitative asset management giant High-Flyer, this enterprise with the mission of "exploring the mysteries of artificial general intelligence with curiosity" has carried the technical ambition to break industry monopolies from its inception: relying on High-Flyer's hardware reserve of 10,000 A100 chips and hundreds of billions of asset management experience, it aims to prove that "cutting-edge AI research is not exclusive to giants."
DeepSeek's core competitiveness lies in a team with an average age of only 28. Founder Liang Wenfeng — a master's graduate in electronic information engineering from Zhejiang University and the founder of High-Flyer, injected the thinking of "using mathematical models to decipher market laws" from quantitative investment into AI research, leading technical backbones with 85% holding master's degrees or above. This team can be called an "alliance of top university scholars": Tsinghua University's interactive artificial intelligence research group doctoral student Shao Zhihong led the mathematical theorem proving model, Peking University computer science doctor Zhu Qihao built the code generation engine with the accumulation of 16 CCF-A papers, and supercomputing world champion Zhao Chenggang constructed an efficient computing power base for model training.
Anti-involution Innovation Culture: The working rhythm rejecting "996", flat management structure, and the trust mechanism of "allowing employees to independently choose research directions and computing power allocation" have enabled this young team to produce more than 40 top conference papers in just two years, even attracting talented engineer Pan Zizheng who gave up the full-time opportunity at NVIDIA — this "curiosity-driven innovation" atmosphere is the core code that distinguishes DeepSeek from traditional technology companies.
In the technical track, DeepSeek has taken a differentiated path of "being meticulous and frugal". It achieved model performance comparable to giants with a training cost of 6 million US dollars and 2000 chips, and its core lies in the original "dynamic collaboration" technical architecture: if traditional large models are compared to a "10,000-person choir" (all parameters working simultaneously), DeepSeek's 256 expert module dynamic routing mechanism is like an "emergency room triage system" — intelligently dispatching the optimal parameter group according to task types, reducing redundant calculations and improving special capabilities. This combination of "efficient architecture + low-cost training" allowed the dynamically sparse training algorithm developed in 2021 to directly reduce the training cost of billion-parameter models by 65%, laying the foundation for subsequent technological breakthroughs.
DeepSeek's product line has built a complete ecosystem from general to vertical, with each model having a clear scenario positioning:
| Product Tier | Representative Model | Core Parameters/Capabilities | Typical Application Scenarios |
|---|
| General Models | DeepSeek-V3 | 671B parameters, covering 2 trillion tokens of Chinese and English data | Long text generation, complex logical reasoning |
| DeepSeek-R1 | Inference-specific architecture, 92% accuracy in Chinese context understanding | Enterprise knowledge base Q&A, automated report generation |
| Vertical Models | DeepSeek-Coder | Supports 30+ programming languages, 15% higher code completion accuracy than Copilot | Cross-language code conversion, developer tool integration |
| DeepSeek-Finance | Trained on 20 years of global financial data, 98% accuracy in extracting financial report indicators | Risk prediction, automated investment research reports |
| Developer Tools | API Services/Open Source Weights | Local deployment solutions, supporting model fine-tuning and secondary development | Enterprise private knowledge base construction, industry-specific models |
This layout of "general models laying the foundation and vertical models going deep" not only consolidates technical barriers through V3/R1 but also quickly occupies professional markets with vertical models such as Coder/Finance, building a "technology-scenario" two-way iteration loop for AGI exploration. While the industry is still debating whether "large parameters equal strong intelligence", DeepSeek has proven with "small but beautiful" practice that real technological breakthroughs often lie in the ultimate understanding of efficiency and scenarios.
DeepSeek's technological competitiveness stems from its systematic breakthroughs in architectural design, performance optimization, cost control, and ecological layout, forming a complete technological moat of "high-performance architecture - benchmark-level performance - disruptive cost - independent ecology".
DeepSeek adopts an innovative Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, like 256 domain experts taking turns to diagnose — each expert module focuses on specific tasks, and the system intelligently activates only 8% of parameters through a dynamic routing mechanism to complete inference, directly improving computing power efficiency by 5 times. This design subverts the inefficient mode of "full parameter activation" in traditional Transformers, significantly reducing computing resource consumption while maintaining model capabilities
In the training mechanism, the self-developed GRPO reinforcement learning algorithm boldly abandons the traditional value network, and through the direct feedback mechanism of "adding points for correct answers and deducting points for wrong answers", the training speed is increased by 30% and memory usage is reduced by 50%. Combined with the low-rank compression of MLA multi-head latent attention technology, the model's KV cache requirement is reduced by half, easily supporting 128K ultra-long context processing, equivalent to understanding 300,000 Chinese characters of long text at once
To address the pain point of long text inference, the newly introduced DSA sparse attention mechanism achieves a 2-3 times speedup in long document understanding through fine-grained sparsification, especially outstanding in scenarios such as legal contract analysis and academic paper interpretation. This "on-demand computing power allocation" design finds the perfect balance between model scale and efficiency
In core capability evaluations, DeepSeek demonstrates the strength to compete with international giants. In the code generation field, it achieved an 82.6% pass rate on HumanEval-Mul, surpassing GPT-4 Turbo (80.5%), especially outstanding in complex logic implementation for mainstream languages such as Python and Java. In mathematical reasoning, it scored 89.3 in the AIME competition, exceeding Claude-3.5's 87.5, demonstrating strong symbolic logic processing capabilities
As a technology team rooted in China, DeepSeek has significant advantages in Chinese understanding: achieving 92% accuracy on the C-Eval Chinese authoritative list, supporting not only Mandarin scenarios but also leading the industry in processing dialects such as Cantonese and Sichuanese. This dual advantage of "native language + global capabilities" gives it unique competitiveness in fields such as financial research report interpretation and ancient book digitization
Performance Highlights at a Glance
Code Generation: HumanEval-Mul 82.6% vs GPT-4 Turbo 80.5%
Mathematical Reasoning: AIME 89.3 points vs Claude-3.5 87.5 points
Chinese Understanding: C-Eval accuracy 92%, industry-leading dialect processing
Long Text Processing: 128K context support, 2-3x inference speed improvement
DeepSeek's most remarkable breakthrough lies in its "ultimate cost-effectiveness". The R1 model training cost is only 5.5 million US dollars, approximately 1/20 of GPT-4, a figure that subverts the industry perception that "large models = high costs". The cost advantage stems from a triple technical combination: MoE architecture reduces computing power requirements, GRPO algorithm reduces training iterations, and mixed-precision training (mainly FP8 format) compresses storage overhead
At the commercial level, cost advantages are directly translated into price competitiveness. Its API service price is as low as 0.2 CNY per million tokens in cache hit scenarios, only 1/35 of GPT-4. After the API price reduction in 2024, call volume from financial, education and other industry customers increased by over 300%, verifying the commercial feasibility of "low price + high performance"
DeepSeek adopts a "fully open source" strategy, with all model weights and training codes open under the MIT license, allowing enterprises and developers to commercialize freely without authorization. This open model has attracted over 100,000 developers to participate in ecological construction, deriving customized models in vertical fields such as education and healthcare
In hardware autonomy, DeepSeek is deeply adapted to domestic chips such as Huawei Ascend and Cambricon, achieving inference performance comparable to NVIDIA H100 on Ascend 910B. This technical route of "getting rid of NVIDIA dependence" not only reduces supply chain risks but also reduces the cost of inference services based on domestic chips by 60%, providing safe and controllable AI solutions for key fields such as government and state-owned enterprises
From technical architecture to commercial implementation, DeepSeek has redefined the development paradigm of large models with a differentiated path of "efficiency, economy, and autonomy" — proving that through architectural innovation and engineering optimization, it is entirely possible to catch up with and even surpass top models while controlling costs.
On September 29, 2025, DeepSeek officially released the V3.2-Exp experimental version, positioned as an "efficiency revolution", and simultaneously announced a 50%+ price reduction for API services, marking a dual leap in performance breakthroughs and cost optimization for large language models. Upgraded from the 671B parameter V3.1-Terminus architecture, this version introduces the DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) sparse attention mechanism for the first time, conducting exploratory optimization and verification on the training and inference efficiency of long texts.
While maintaining the total 671B parameters, the new version achieves a balance between "computing power throttling" and "speed opening" through 40% activation efficiency improvement and DSA mechanism optimization. Long text processing latency is reduced to 100ms, equivalent to processing 100,000 Chinese characters (about 128K tokens) in only 0.1 seconds, with throughput increased by 3.8 times, supporting real-time analysis of book-level documents. At the training data level, 2 trillion additional tokens of multimodal data (text + code) lay the foundation for functional expansion, while the open-sourcing of TileLang/CUDA dual-version GPU operators (such as reducing FlashAttention operator code from 500+ lines to 80 lines) further lowers the threshold for developers' local deployment.
Core Performance Indicators
Inference Speed: Long text processing latency 100ms, throughput increased by 3.8 times
Memory Optimization: KV cache reduced by 50%, memory usage reduced by 30-40% in long text scenarios
Cost Control: API cache hit input as low as 0.2 CNY/million tokens, 50%+ price reduction from previous version
The new version forms an iron triangle of "** multimodal parsing + intelligent tool calling + ultra-long context **" in terms of functionality:
Multimodal capabilities enable PDF/Excel structured parsing and medical image recognition (98.7% accuracy), directly processing CT images in medical reports and financial statement data;
Tool calling module adds Code Agent and Search Agent, where the former can automatically fix code dependency conflicts (such as package version incompatibility issues in Python environments), and the latter supports real-time data retrieval (such as millisecond-level acquisition of stock quotes and weather information);
128K tokens context window (about 100,000 Chinese characters) breaks the bottleneck of long text processing, with Huawei Cloud completing adaptation to support a maximum sequence length of 160K, meeting the needs of legal contract review, academic paper intensive reading and other scenarios.
The commercial value of technical features has been verified in practical scenarios: Foxconn optimized production line scheduling by deploying V3.2-Exp, achieving 25% improvement in equipment utilization and saving 200 million CNY annually; in financial applications, risk control system false positive rate reduced by 62%, credit review efficiency increased by 3 times; manufacturing predictive maintenance costs decreased by 40%, downtime reduced to 1/3 of original. In medical scenarios, 98.7% medical image recognition accuracy provides AI-assisted diagnosis support for primary hospitals, promoting diagnosis and treatment efficiency.
This version iteration is not only an optimization of technical parameters but also accelerates the large-scale application of large language models in various industries through the combined strategy of "high performance + low price + easy deployment" . Just as the adjustment of API price system (0.2 CNY/million tokens for cache hit input, 3 CNY/million tokens for output), DeepSeek is accelerating the large-scale application of large language models in thousands of industries with "dimension reduction strike" cost advantages.
DeepSeek is reshaping the AI industry landscape with disruptive force. Its breakthrough in achieving high performance at low cost directly triggered a price war among domestic large models,推动 API average prices down by 70% from 2024 to 2025, completely breaking the industry consensus that "only tech giants can develop cutting-edge AI". This transformation is not only reflected in price but also attracts leading cloud vendors such as Huawei Cloud and Tencent Cloud to join, reconstructing the AI service ecosystem together and forming a new industrial collaboration model of "open-source technology + cloud vendor empowerment". In terms of market recognition, on January 27, 2025, DeepSeek application topped the free APP download chart in the US region of Apple App Store, surpassing ChatGPT; in Q1 of the same year, global downloads exceeded 75 million, surpassing the Claude series, with monthly visits reaching 546.6 million and traffic growing 142.5% year-on-year, verifying users' high recognition of its technical value with data
In terms of technical route, DeepSeek has proven the new industry logic that "algorithm innovation > computing power stacking" through practice. By open-sourcing R1 training technology and making public DeepSeek-V3/R1 model weights and inference system optimization experience, it has attracted over 100,000 global developers to participate in ecological co-construction, deriving more than 200 vertical applications covering medical auxiliary diagnosis, financial predictive analysis, educational personalized learning and other diverse scenarios. This open-source strategy not only lowers technical thresholds but also promotes training efficiency as a core competitive point — for example, its newly launched DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp model reduces API call costs by more than 50% relying on the Sparse Attention mechanism, combined with computing efficiency optimization of Cambricon chips, significantly reducing training and inference costs in long sequence scenarios and setting a technical benchmark for the "lean AI" era.
Core Achievements of Technological Democratization: The open-source ecosystem built by over 100,000 developers is permeating AI capabilities into the capillaries of traditional industries — from Xinjiang cotton fields where AI crop monitoring systems achieve 98% pest identification accuracy and 40% reduction in pesticide usage, to Sany Heavy Industry reducing pump truck unexpected downtime by 40% and saving 80 million CNY annually in maintenance costs through sensor data analysis, technological inclusion has moved from concept to industrial implementation
DeepSeek's technical blueprint shows a clear progressive path. In the short term (Q4 2025), it will launch the MoE-2048 architecture to reach the trillion-parameter model milestone; in the medium term (2026), it plans to implement edge device deployment of 100B-level models, freeing high-performance AI from reliance on cloud computing power; in the long term, it aims at cutting-edge fields such as protein design and materials science to explore AI's disruptive impact on basic science. This evolution logic from "general to specialized" is consistent with its "technological equality" philosophy — through diversified service models such as Web-based Chat, API calls, and multi-end login (WeChat/phone number login on web, app store download on mobile, HarmonyOS NEXT integration), both individual developers and enterprise-level users (such as supercomputing internet platforms and national computing power nodes) can equally access cutting-edge AI capabilities
Despite rapid development, DeepSeek still faces three core challenges. Technically, multimodal capabilities have obvious shortcomings, with image generation and video analysis functions lagging behind Gemini 1.5 Pro; in terms of data security, doctor adoption rate in medical scenarios is only 68%, and financial sectors still have concerns about potential inclusion of other models' outputs in training data; internationally, OpenAI has planned to launch low-cost versions in response, and Silicon Valley companies have collectively shifted to "lean AI" strategies, making global technological competition enter a white-hot stage
From challenging tech giant monopolies to push 70% reduction in average API prices, from 75 million downloads to over 200 vertical application deployments, DeepSeek's development trajectory is a microcosm of China's AI technological breakthrough. Through the dual drive of "open-source collaboration + efficiency revolution", it has not only achieved its own closed loop from technological breakthrough to commercial implementation but also made "cost reduction and efficiency improvement" the industry keynote — just as Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang evaluated it as a "world-shattering model", this practice of breaking resource monopolies through technological inclusion is writing a new narrative of "Chinese AI technological equality". In the future, with the maturity of trillion-parameter models and edge deployment technologies, DeepSeek may truly realize its original aspiration of "making cutting-edge AI accessible", providing a "Chinese solution" for global AI development.
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