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The Information Staff @ The Information · 05/08/2026 07:40 EDT

DeepSeek To Raise More than $7 Billion as Startup Plots Revenue Efforts

Liang Wenfeng, billionaire founder and CEO of DeepSeek, is planning to write the biggest check for the startup’s first-ever funding round, which the company now hopes will raise up to 50 billion yuan ($7.35 billion), according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks. That would make it the biggest funding round by a Chinese AI company ever.

Meanwhile, the funding round has prompted the Chinese AI lab to expedite its plans to generate revenue and become commercially viable. DeepSeek has also recent

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