- Deployment
- self-hosted-weights
- Hq Country
- China
- Hq City
- Hangzhou
- Ownership
- private
- Founded
- 2023
- Training Default
- never
- Residency Options
- your-infrastructure, EU (via EU inference hosts)
- Gov Access Exposure
- none-eu
- Eu Ai Act Role
- deployer
- Zero Retention Available
- Yes
- Self Host Option
- Yes
- Retention Default
- customer-controlled
- Retention Exceptions
- none — no vendor-side data flow (MIT-licensed weights)
- Subprocessor Count
- 0
- Transfer Mechanism
- intra-eu
- Eu Procurement Ready
- conditional
- Eu Procurement Reason
- Data flows pass entirely — same weights, zero PRC data flow. Conditional only because some orgs bar PRC-origin models by policy, not by data-protection law.
- Last Policy Change
- 2025-01-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Change Summary
- R1 released as open weights (MIT), making sovereign self-hosting possible.
- Prior Value
- Hosted-only access.
- Training Evidence Url
- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
- Training Claim Basis
- inferred
- Training Confidence
- high
- Residency Evidence Url
- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
- Residency Claim Basis
- inferred
- Residency Confidence
- high
- Retention Evidence Url
- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
- Retention Claim Basis
- inferred
- Retention Confidence
- high
- Subprocessors Claim Basis
- inferred
- Subprocessors Confidence
- high
