Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with investors about raising new funds at a ~$71B valuation, after raising ~$7B at a ~$52B valuation at the end of May (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6deb470e-d152-43a2-be0d-cc1fde4f3db8?accessToken=zwAAAZ9gG5B7kc9t60cO0VJDotO-Dcwf3k89uA.MEQCIEqvmQEfK2bYeFjFJp2Fu5-nn_A3p-kXc-48TpxTwEMoAiAfqTPxeg9IDY8a_igNysPaBxpy67NqlfX7FXRI5SIJ_Q&amp;segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&amp;shareType=enterprise&amp;shareId=bfc519b9-f653-45ea-a813-8598547f09b5"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260714/i7.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260714/p7#a260714p7" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Zijing Wu / <a href="https://www.ft.com/">Financial Times</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6deb470e-d152-43a2-be0d-cc1fde4f3db8?accessToken=zwAAAZ9gG5B7kc9t60cO0VJDotO-Dcwf3k89uA.MEQCIEqvmQEfK2bYeFjFJp2Fu5-nn_A3p-kXc-48TpxTwEMoAiAfqTPxeg9IDY8a_igNysPaBxpy67NqlfX7FXRI5SIJ_Q&amp;segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&amp;shareType=enterprise&amp;shareId=bfc519b9-f653-45ea-a813-8598547f09b5">Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with investors about raising new funds at a ~$71B valuation, after raising ~$7B at a ~$52B valuation at the end of May</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Unusually swift pace of capital injection comes as Chinese AI start-up seeks to build out infrastructure</p>