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… DeepSeek’s cloud service runs on chips made by the Chinese company Huawei Technologies. Investors in DeepSeek include Tencent and Beijing’s National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, per Bloomberg. DeepSeek could not be reached for comment. …
In Brief Posted: 10:20 AM PDT · May 6, 2026 Julie Bort DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first round of venture capital, and in just a few weeks, its potential valuation has soared from $20 billion to $45 billion, the Financial Times… …
… For running larger models, like DeepSeek v4, Pae recommends systems with about 128GB of RAM. …
… The company also looked at DeepSeek in its analysis, but it didn’t fit the pattern. While DeepSeek R1 drove 28 million downloads after its January 2025 release , it wasn’t a typical model comparison event. …
… DeepSeek, perhaps the most popular Chinese AI lab, is reportedly in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, at a valuation of about $45 billion. …
… DeepSeek V4 Flash is the main winner on overall usage, processing 5.3 trillion tokens weekly. …
… It also explored integrations with DeepSeek and with models from ByteDance, reports claimed. …
… OpenRouter provides access to over 400 models, including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI, and DeepSeek, it says. …
… Executives are pitching their own products as alternatives, or recommending companies take cheaper open source models, like those developed by DeepSeek, Z.ai, or Moonshot, and train them for their own purposes. …