DeepSeek valued at more than $50 billion after funding round

Chinese artificial intelligence startup recently raised more than $7.4 billion

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Investors have valued Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek at more than $50 billion in the company’s first fundraising round, reports said.

The firm released its latest AI model in April, having stunned the world in 2025 with a low-cost chatbot that matched the power of US rivals.

It recently raised more than 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion), the Wall Street Journal and The Information said this week, citing people with knowledge of the matter. That values the company at more than $50 billion, they said.

Training and running cutting-edge AI models is an expensive business, requiring billions of dollars in computing infrastructure.