The company says they are on par with or better than industry-leading models in the U.S. at a fraction of the cost, which has led to steep declines for AI chipmaker NVIDIA's shares and others.

該公司表示，這些產品與美國業界領先的機型相當，甚至更好，而成本只是後者的一小部分，這導致人工智能芯片製造商英偉達（NVIDIA）等公司股價大幅下跌。

Here's what we know about the company and its product development.

以下是我們對該公司及其產品開發的瞭解。

Since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, Chinese tech firms have been scrambling to create their own chatbots powered by artificial intelligence.

自 2022 年底 OpenAI 的 ChatGPT 發佈以來，中國的科技公司一直在爭先恐後地創建自己的人工智能哈拉機器人。

DeepSeek says two of its models have been showered with praise by Silicon Valley executives and U.S. tech company engineers and are on par with OpenAI and Meta's most advanced models.

DeepSeek 稱，它的兩個模型得到了硅谷高管和美國科技公司工程師的一致好評，與 OpenAI 和 Meta 最先進的模型不相上下。

It also says that one of them is 20 to 50 times cheaper to use than an OpenAI model depending on the task.

它還表示，根據任務的不同，其中一個模型的使用成本比 OpenAI 模型低 20 到 50 倍。

One technology CEO told CNBC he thinks DeepSeek is using NVIDIA chips which are banned from being sold to Chinese companies.

一位技術公司首席執行官告訴 CNBC，他認為 DeepSeek 使用的是英偉達™（NVIDIA）芯片，而該芯片被禁止出售給中國公司。

DeepSeek did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the allegation.

DeepSeek 沒有立即迴應就這一指控發表評論的請求。

The company is a Hangzhou-based startup whose controlling shareholder is Liang Wenfeng, co-founder of quantitative hedge fund HiFlyer, based on Chinese corporate records.

根據中國公司記錄，該公司是一家總部位於杭州的初創公司，其控股股東是量化對沖基金 HiFlyer 的聯合創始人梁文峰。

It is unclear how much HiFlyer has invested in DeepSeek.

目前還不清楚 HiFlyer 對 DeepSeek 投資了多少。

The two companies have offices in the same building, and HiFlyer owns patents related to chip clusters used to train AI models, according to Chinese corporate records.

根據中國公司的記錄，這兩家公司在同一棟大樓裡辦公，HiFlyer 擁有用於訓練人工智能模型的芯片集群的相關專利。

DeepSeek's success has already been noticed in China's top political circles.

DeepSeek 的成功已經引起了中國政界高層的關注。

Last week, on the day DeepSeek released a new product to the public, company founder Liang attended a closed-door symposium hosted by Chinese Premier Li Qiang, according to state news agency Xinhua.

據國家通訊社新華社報道，上週，在 DeepSeek 向公眾發佈新產品的當天，公司創始人梁出席了由中國國務院總理李強主持的閉門座談會。

Liang's presence at the gathering is potentially a sign that DeepSeek's success could be important to Beijing's policy goal of overcoming Washington's export controls and achieving self-sufficiency in strategic industries like AI.

梁建章出席這次會議可能表明，DeepSeek 的成功對中國政府克服華盛頓的出口管制、實現人工智能等戰略產業自給自足的政策目標具有重要意義。