Published May 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
TechCrunch
May 7, 2026, 6:00 AM
DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round
The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big U.S. models like those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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