宁德时代与腾讯参与DeepSeek至少120亿美元融资，公司计划2027年初IPO
CATL and Tencent back Deepseek's ballooning funding round as the AI startup eyes a 2027 IPO
DeepSeek接近筹集至少120亿美元，Bloomberg报道总额或接近150亿美元，宁德时代和腾讯出资最多，兴趣主要来自V4-Flash相对Anthropic与OpenAI的成本及性能新基准。
Oct 6, 2026
Deepseek is close to raising at least $12 billion in a new funding round, Bloomberg reports. The Chinese AI startup originally aimed to raise about $7.5 billion at a valuation of roughly $75 billion. People familiar with the matter say the total could approach $15 billion. Battery maker CATL and Tencent are contributing the largest shares. The strong investor interest stems from Deepseek's V4-Flash model, which has set new benchmarks for cost and performance against Anthropic and OpenAI.
After the round closes, Deepseek plans to restructure for an IPO in early 2027. The company is building a data center with at least 160,000 AI chips from Huawei. Founder Liang Wenfeng wants to keep developing open models with freely available weights. CATL declined to comment. Tencent and Deepseek didn't respond.
Deepseek had paused the round after comments by Liang about the company's reliance on Nvidia chips went viral. In June, the company closed its first external funding round at about $7.4 billion with a valuation above $50 billion. Deepseek released V4-Pro and V4-Flash as preview versions in April and is also working on its own inference chip to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Huawei.
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