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Bloomberg:DeepSeek 拟融资至少 120 亿美元,估值或达 710 亿美元

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DeepSeek 这轮可能融到 120 亿美元以上,估值 710 亿,还要买 16 万块华为芯片建数据中心,腾讯宁德时代都跟投了。

据 Bloomberg 报道,DeepSeek 接近完成至少 120 亿美元融资,超出其原定目标,投后估值可能达到 710 亿美元,若已签署的投资意向书全部落地,总额或接近 150 亿美元。融资需求上涨与 V4 Flash 模型发布后的使用量激增有关。资金将主要用于算力采购,计划为内蒙古数据中心配备至少 16 万块 Huawei Ascend 950DT 加速器。腾讯和宁德时代参与本轮,两者在 DeepSeek 约 520 亿美元估值的首轮外部融资中分别投入约 15 亿美元和 7.4 亿美元,创始人梁文锋个人注资约 30 亿美元。

原文 · rohanpaul_ai

Bloomberg: DeepSeek is close to raising at least $12B, well above its own fundraising target at a posssible $71B valuation.

Demand surged after its V4 Flash model launched, and signed term sheets could lift the final total to nearly $15B

And the lab needs the money for hardware, including at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators planned for a data center in Inner Mongolia.

Tencent Holdings and battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. are again among the biggest backers.

Tencent Holdings and battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. are again among the biggest backers.

They committed roughly $1.5B and $740M in DeepSeek's first outside round, which valued the lab at about $52B after the money came in.

Founder Liang Wenfeng put about $3B of his own money into that round.