Business & Policy · first seen 13 October 2026, 23:58 UTC
DeepSeek funding round could reach 100B yuan
A huge raise would fund China's leading open-weight model lab at frontier scale.
Reports say DeepSeek's second funding round is swelling toward roughly 100 billion yuan, near $14B and double its original target, at a pre-money valuation held at 500 billion yuan as terms remain fluid.