# DeepSeek — AI lab, China ## No corporate parent is shown 0 ownership levels above this company 0 supply relationships · 0 with suppliers, 0 with customers 0 linked facilities 0 export-control designations found 0 sovereign commitments to funds investing in this company Scrutica id org-deepseek Name and corporate-form variants · 1 DeepSeek AI Cite PrintScreenshot Entity record Disclosures of DeepSeek’s control over compute facilities, including counterparties, capacity, contract terms and sources. [Open the entity record](https://scrutica.com/entities/companies/org-deepseek/dossier). ### Ownership chain The main chain follows the strongest parent claim by confidence, source authority and date. Other named parents appear alongside it. 1. DeepSeek (CN) Starting organisation. End of the displayed chain The displayed [ownership chain](https://scrutica.com/methodology#chain-of-title-walk) ends at **DeepSeek** ### Related analysis - [Headquarters country: China Country profile with facility capacity, government AI programmes and export-control conditions. ](https://scrutica.com/country/cn) Source coverage Geographic revenue, business segments and capital allocation are unavailable from the licensed financial dataset. No stock ticker or SEC filing identifier is recorded for DeepSeek. The public industry classification (SIC, NAICS) is also unrecorded. [Sources and publication limits](https://scrutica.com/methodology#licensed-substrate). ## DeepSeek chip observations Estimates from the listed sources, with unknown quantities shown explicitly. Shared resources, purchases and reported deployments have different meanings. Company observations do not establish a model’s training allocation. | Chip class / organisation | Quantity | Scope | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | NVIDIA Hopper (shared-access aggregate)
[DeepSeek (High-Flyer)](https://scrutica.com/companies/org-deepseek) | ~50,000 | Reported access (shared resources)
Period: 2025-01 | [Source 2025-01-31](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/deepseek-debates)
Tier 3 · source reporting
Evidence scope
SemiAnalysis estimates access to around 50,000 Hopper GPUs shared by DeepSeek and High-Flyer. Its H100/H800 observations describe parts of this shared aggregate.
Shared resources across DeepSeek and High-Flyer, geographically distributed and used for several workloads. Component rows are nonadditive with the aggregate. | | NVIDIA H100
[DeepSeek (High-Flyer)](https://scrutica.com/companies/org-deepseek) | ~10,000
Component of shared aggregate; excluded from sums. | Reported access (shared resources)
Period: 2025-01 | [Source 2025-01-31](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/deepseek-debates)
Tier 3 · source reporting
Evidence scope
SemiAnalysis estimates access to around 10,000 H100 GPUs within the shared Hopper aggregate. This is not a per-run allocation or proof of exclusive ownership.
Shared resources across DeepSeek and High-Flyer, geographically distributed and used for several workloads. Component rows are nonadditive with the aggregate. | | NVIDIA H800
[DeepSeek (High-Flyer)](https://scrutica.com/companies/org-deepseek) | ~10,000
Component of shared aggregate; excluded from sums. | Reported access (shared resources)
Period: 2025-01 | [Source 2025-01-31](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/deepseek-debates)
Tier 3 · source reporting
Evidence scope
SemiAnalysis estimates access to around 10,000 H800 GPUs within the shared Hopper aggregate. This is not a per-run allocation or proof of exclusive ownership.
Shared resources across DeepSeek and High-Flyer, geographically distributed and used for several workloads. Component rows are nonadditive with the aggregate. | | NVIDIA H20
[DeepSeek (High-Flyer)](https://scrutica.com/companies/org-deepseek) | Unknown | Reported procurement
Orders only; quantity, delivery and aggregate membership unestablished.
Period: 2025-01 | [Source 2025-01-31](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/deepseek-debates)
Tier 4 · quantity not established
Evidence scope
H20 orders are mentioned; no H20-specific quantity is established by the checked article.
The article mentions H20 orders without a quantity. These orders are not assigned to the 50,000-chip access aggregate. | ### Sums of recorded estimates, by scope Reported procurement Unknown · quantities unavailable for 1 observation Reported access (shared resources) ~50,000 recorded sum · 1 of 1 observations quantified These observations cover selected organisations and different source dates. Sums cover recorded quantities only; they are not a census of current inventory. Purchases and shared access remain separate from deployed stock. Component observations remain visible but are excluded from sums when their reviewed aggregate is present. Unknown quantities remain unknown. 1 organisations with publishable observations · 4 chip categories. Source dates: 2025-01-31–2025-01-31.