Sources: DeepSeek's $7.4B raise was prompted by the release of Mythos as CEO Liang Wenfeng realized DeepSeek couldn't compete without a massive war chest (The Information)

<a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropics-mythos-spooked-deepseek-prompting-7-4-billion-fundraising"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260626/i11.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260626/p11#a260626p11" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/">The Information</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropics-mythos-spooked-deepseek-prompting-7-4-billion-fundraising">Sources: DeepSeek's $7.4B raise was prompted by the release of Mythos as CEO Liang Wenfeng realized DeepSeek couldn't compete without a massive war chest</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Up until two months ago, DeepSeek, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab, was an anomaly in the increasingly costly global AI battle.</p>