{"id":1007245,"date":"2026-05-07T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007245"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:01:01","slug":"deepseek-could-be-valued-at-up-to-50-billion-in-first-fundraising-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/deepseek-could-be-valued-at-up-to-50-billion-in-first-fundraising-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek could be valued at up to $50 billion in first fundraising: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese AI startup DeepSeek could be valued at up to $50 billion in its maiden fundraising drive, three sources said, as the large language model builder seeks to reverse its years-long strategy of rejecting outside funding. <\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s 60-billion-yuan ($8.8 billion) national artificial intelligence fund, founded in January last year, is in talks to be a lead investor in DeepSeek&#8217;s fundraising, said one of the sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese AI startup DeepSeek could be valued at up to $50 billion in its maiden fundraising drive, three sources said, as the large language model builder seeks to reverse its years-long strategy of rejecting outside funding. China&#8217;s 60-billion-yuan ($8.8 billion) national artificial intelligence fund, founded in January last year, is in talks to be a lead investor in DeepSeek&#8217;s fundraising, said one of the sources familiar with the matter.<\/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-1007245","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\/1007245","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=1007245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007264,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007245\/revisions\/1007264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}