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Business, Funding & Policy · first seen 30 October 2026, 01:08 UTC

DeepSeek's $16B round drew Chinese tech and state investors

The scale and state backing of the round show how China is bankrolling its top AI labs.

DeepSeek's nearly $16 billion funding round this month drew a who's who of Chinese tech investors along with some of the country's most powerful state-backed institutions, according to The Information.

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