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Institution

DeepSeek

also called DeepSeek-AI

decade4 connections

the Hangzhou lab whose efficiency-first releases reset what an open model was expected to cost

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell is no mode × L7. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

Overlays: Governance, policy & ethics.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointDeepSeeknothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

What kind of thing it is — and what it is made of

It is part of: Open weights.

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

49DeepSeekact 11 · The Open-Weight World

Where it comes from

Every connection

All 4 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

Structure · 1
is part ofOpen weightsProperty
Lineage · 3
is an ancestor ofDeepSeek-V3Model
is an ancestor ofDeepSeek-R1Model
is an ancestor ofDeepSeek-V4Model

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