DeepSeek正以500亿美元估值进行高达70亿美元的融资,创下中国AI领域最大单轮融资纪录。创始人梁文锋个人出资30亿美元,占本轮融资的40%,同时仍保留公司90%的所有权。该公司最初诞生于其本人成功的对冲基金内部。本轮融资将主要用于获取大规模计算资源,以加速发布V4.1等新模型,并投资企业级产品,目标是推动公司实现营收转正,其发展路径与OpenAI和Anthropic类似。
DeepSeek is raising a massive $7 billion at a $50 billion valuation, marking China's largest AI funding round to date. - per The Information
Founder Liang Wenfeng is personally contributing $3 billion-40% of the round-while keeping 90% ownership. He originally launched the company inside his own successful hedge fund.
The round will secure major compute capacity to accelerate new model releases like V4.1 and fund enterprise products to make the business revenue-positive, following the same path as OpenAI and Anthropic.