DeepSeek Raises $15 Billion in Challenge to Leading US Labs

The Chinese AI pioneer DeepSeek has raised about 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) in its latest fundraising round, one of the country’s largest ever and a sign of the startup’s ambitions to compete globally with the likes of Anthropic PBC and OpenAI.

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2026-10-22 02:17 · Bloomberg AI
DeepSeek Raises $15 Billion in Challenge to Leading US Labs

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