{"id":1012283,"date":"2026-06-04T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012283"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:30:24","slug":"chinese-ai-startup-deepseek-to-raise-7-billion-in-maiden-funding-round-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/04\/chinese-ai-startup-deepseek-to-raise-7-billion-in-maiden-funding-round-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AI startup DeepSeek to raise $7 billion in maiden funding round: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing [China], June 3, (ANI): Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is seeking $7 billion in what is the AI firm&#8217;s maiden fundraising, according to a Reuters report. <\/p>\n<p>The Chinese AI player is raising the money from Tencent and battery giant CATL and is likely to be valued at between $52 billion and $59 billion, the report cited sources familiar with details. <\/p>\n<p>DeepSeek&#8217;s AI heft was recognised by Silicon Valley when, early last year, its V3 and R1 models drove the realisation that AI models didn&#8217;t need big-bang budgets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing [China], June 3, (ANI): Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is seeking $7 billion in what is the AI firm&#8217;s maiden fundraising, according to a Reuters report. The Chinese AI player is raising the money from Tencent and battery giant CATL and is likely to be valued at between $52 billion and $59 billion, the report cited sources familiar with details. DeepSeek&#8217;s AI heft was recognised by Silicon Valley when, early last year, its V3 and R1 models drove the realisation that AI models didn&#8217;t need big-bang budgets.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012283","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=1012283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012284,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012283\/revisions\/1012284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}