DeepSeek
Lineage
- Assistant
- DeepSeek
- Model families
- DeepSeek FlashDeepSeek Pro
- Headquarters and founding
- Hangzhou, China; founded in 2023
- Leadership
- Liang Wenfeng, founder and chief executive
Founding and headquarters: Wikipedia, 9 November 2026 ↗
DeepSeek's assistant
The assistants ranking →DeepSeekAssistant · Celsius score35out of 100, 9th out of 10Performance43Ethics18Environment45The assistant profile →DeepSeek models
DeepSeek's models, general intelligence and release date
Epoch AI ECI index and its 95% interval; 4 models released in 2026 and measured by the ECI index; 4 models measured in all, in the "Table" tab
Dot: the index measured, at the release dateLine: the 95% interval
Sources: Epoch AI, "Capabilities & benchmarking", ECI index and APEX-Agents. CC BY 4.0 licence.
An underlined name links to the model profile; the others are below the threshold for a profile (3 public measurements, or a place in the top 10 of a benchmark).
Governance and safety
- Company governance
- Chinese law; avoids 85% of questions sensitive for Beijing (Promptfoo, 1/2025); open models under the MIT licence.
- Model safety
- Grade F from the Future of Life Institute (summer 2026), no published safety framework; its open models at least allow outside testing.
Electricity and environmental approach
- Decarbonised electricity
- Servers in China, grid at 525 g CO₂e/kWh, 15% higher than the world average (458).
- Company's environmental approach
- Real efficiency and rock-bottom prices, but no energy figure, no report and no target.
Methodology: the ranking criteria ; the electricity use of a task for its models is a Projet Celsius estimate, based on the electricity use ofwriting 1,000 tokens (AI Impact Database).
Scores and facts: assistants ranking, scores as of 11/11/2026 (methodology 1.1), sources on the DeepSeek page. Models: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Continue in the ranking
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