DeepSeek is a cutting-edge artificial intelligence model series developed by the DeepSeek-VL team. It includes DeepSeek-VL (vision-language model) and DeepSeek-Coder (code-specialized model). These models are trained on massive datasets and optimized for high performance across natural language processing, multimodal understanding (text + image), and software development tasks. DeepSeek models offer capabilities such as: Natural language understanding and generation Code generation and debugging across multiple languages Image captioning and visual reasoning Document and web content analysis Open-ended Q&A and summarization With open-source availability and impressive benchmarks (on par with GPT-4 and Claude in some tasks), DeepSeek is gaining attention as a strong competitor in the open foundation model space. It's suitable for developers, researchers, and enterprises looking for high-performance AI at lower infrastructure costs.