Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first funding round from investors including Tencent Holdings and CATL people with knowledge of the matter said.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly preparing to raise approximately 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first external funding round, a move that could value the company at between 350 ...

Buy Tencent. DeepSeek funding with Tencent as a likely top backer signals Tencent is doubling down on leading Chinese model developers to defend its AI stack across search, cloud, gaming, ads, and ...

China made the inner workings of the A.I. model open to all, and that’s starting to look like a soft-power win. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. Remember the “DeepSeek moment?” The ...

The promotional discount runs until 5 May 2026. Even at full price, V4-Pro already undercuts GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on per-token costs. The move is a direct challenge to the ...

HONG KONG (AP) — DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook world markets last year, launched preview versions of its latest major update Friday as the AI rivalry between China ...

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4, a much-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that ...

Chinese companies have embraced making their most advanced artificial intelligence models available to all. The Chinese start-up DeepSeek shook the industry in January 2025 with its claim that it had ...

"answer quality to DeepSeek-R1-0528, while responding more quickly." msgstr "更高的思考效率：DeepSeek-V3.1-Think 实现了与 DeepSeek-R1-0528 ...

Chinese tech giants Tencent and Alibaba are eyeing stakes in DeepSeek, which is targeting a valuation exceeding $20 billion as it launches its debut fundraising round, The Information reported on ...

In short: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned on the Dwarkesh Podcast that DeepSeek optimising its AI models for Huawei’s Ascend chips instead of American hardware would be “a horrible outcome” for the ...