Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B+ valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation (The Information)

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Tencent and Alibaba are reportedly in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B+ valuation, a significant funding development that would further cement the Chinese AI startup's valuation above Moonshot's pending round.

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<a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-alibaba-talks-invest-deepseek-20-billion-plus-valuation"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260422/i17.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/260422/p17#a260422p17" 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/tencent-alibaba-talks-invest-deepseek-20-billion-plus-valuation">Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B+ valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI upstart that recently started fundraising &hellip; </p>