Sources: DeepSeek seeks to raise ~$7.3B in its first-ever funding round at a $50B+ valuation, with CEO Liang Wenfeng making a personal investment of ~$2.9B (The Information)
DeepSeek is seeking its first-ever funding round of ~$7.3B at a $50B+ valuation, with CEO Liang Wenfeng investing ~$2.9B personally, signaling aggressive scaling ambitions for the prominent open-weights AI lab.
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<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-raise-7-billion-startup-plots-revenue-efforts">Sources: DeepSeek seeks to raise ~$7.3B in its first-ever funding round at a $50B+ valuation, with CEO Liang Wenfeng making a personal investment of ~$2.9B</a></b></span> — Liang Wenfeng, billionaire founder and CEO of DeepSeek, is planning to write the biggest check for the startup's first-ever funding round … </p>
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