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- Oct 2211:27
DeepSeek Raises About $15 Billion, With CATL and Tencent Among Biggest Investors
it is one of the largest single funding rounds ever for a Chinese AI company; the roughly $15 billion size is about 15 times the company's reported annualized revenue of about $1 billion.
- Oct 617:00
DeepSeek Nears $12B Funding Round with Tencent and CATL, Doubling Its Original Target
It is DeepSeek's largest round and China's biggest private AI raise this year; it grew from a 50 billion yuan target to at least 80 billion yuan, with Tencent and CATL among the largest backers.