{"id":1003656,"date":"2026-04-18T11:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003656"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:37:48","slug":"chinas-deepseek-is-raising-funds-at-10-billion-valuation-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/chinas-deepseek-is-raising-funds-at-10-billion-valuation-report\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s DeepSeek is raising funds at $10 billion valuation: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is in talks with investors to raise at least $300 million at a valuation of $10 billion, The Information reported on Friday, citing two \u200cpeople familiar \u2060with \u2060the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The company, whose low-cost models took the AI industry by storm and rattled stock markets last year, has previously turned down multiple funding offers from China&#8217;s top venture capital firms and tech giants, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is in talks with investors to raise at least $300 million at a valuation of $10 billion, The Information reported on Friday, citing two \u200cpeople familiar \u2060with \u2060the matter. The company, whose low-cost models took the AI industry by storm and rattled stock markets last year, has previously turned down multiple funding offers from China&#8217;s top venture capital firms and tech giants, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}