Chinese lab known for strong, low-cost open-weight reasoning models.
Category: Foundation Models · Type: Foundation model provider (open-weight) · Website: https://www.deepseek.com
Overview
DeepSeek released MIT-licensed open-weight models that delivered frontier-level reasoning at dramatically lower training and inference cost, reshaping price expectations across the industry. Its reasoning models are popular for agentic workloads that need cheap, capable inference. The current generation includes DeepSeek V4 alongside the R-series reasoning models.
Key Features
- Open-weight reasoning and general models
- Very low cost per token
- Strong math, coding, and chain-of-thought reasoning
- Self-hostable or served via inference providers
Role in the Agentic AI Stack
A budget-friendly reasoning 'brain' for agents; commonly self-hosted or accessed through OpenRouter and fast-inference providers.
Part of Agentic AI Landscape → Foundation Models