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DeepSeek nears $15 billion funding round backed by Chinese tech firms

The round is about double the original target, showing how much capital is flowing into Chinese AI labs.

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SITUATION EXPLAINED: DeepSeek is closing a $15 billion raise, and its backers include Tencent, CATL, and a dishwasher maker. • The round is about 100B yuan, double the original 50B yuan target, at roughly 500B yuan (about $70B) before the new money • Carmaker Geely, delivery giant Meituan, and chipmaker GigaDevice joined too • Most of the backers are companies in China’s tech supply chain rather than VC firms, which could make DeepSeek a core part of that chain • That valuation is a fraction of what top US labs are worth, with Anthropic’s last round valuing it at $965B • DeepSeek hired CITIC Securities in September to prepare a possible IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market @theojaffee: "It’s a sort of flywheel where DeepSeek helps Huawei build chips that are then used to train the next DeepSeek…
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  11. DeepSeek raises $15 billion in major China funding round

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