DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab building open-weight frontier large language models, including its V3 and R1 reasoning models.
Around 184 people on the team.
| Date | Round | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | Growth A disclosure by listed firm Kaipun implied DeepSeek completed a funding round that lifted its valuation to about 351 billion RMB. Sources say the company has already begun raising a second round. | $7.4B |
| Jun 2026 | Growth DeepSeek closed its first external funding round, raising about 7.4 billion dollars at a valuation above 50 billion dollars, with Tencent and CATL among outside investors. | $7.4B |
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