Model Providers

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company founded in July 2023 in Hangzhou by Liang Wenfeng, who previously co-founded High-Flyer Capital, a quantitative hedge fund. The company built on High-Flyer's existing computing infrastructure and quantitative-finance talent to pivot into foundational AI research. DeepSeek's stated mission centers on realizing artificial general intelligence, with an emphasis on foundational research rather than immediate commercialization, and the company has committed to open-sourcing its models to encourage transparency and community collaboration.

MiniMax (Chinese: 上海稀宇科技有限公司, Shanghai Xiyu Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Shanghai-based AI company founded in December 2021 by a group of computer vision researchers who previously worked at SenseTime. The company's name is drawn from the minimax algorithm in game theory, which describes minimizing potential losses in a worst-case scenario while maximizing potential gains. Key founders include Yan Junjie (CEO), Yang Bin, and Zhou Yucong.