DeepSeek nears $45bn valuation as China’s ‘Big Fund’ leads investment talks

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In just a few weeks of talks, DeepSeek's potential valuation has reportedly soared from $20 billion to $45 billion.

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China made the inner workings of the A.I. model open to all, and that’s starting to look like a soft-power win.

DeepSeek’s latest AI model was poised for a major launch. And yet, the markets did not react as expected to the release of DeepSeek’s V4 preview, despite the Chinese startup making technical headway with its latest software. Investors are less likely to swoon at the announcement of a more powerful, more efficient, and less expensive AI model. They know what we mean, and they’re waiting for it to do something impressive. This is not to imply that DeepSeek failed at its most recent endeavor, because it clearly did not. While its latest model has outperformed predecessors, it still solidifies China’s […]

April 2026 turned out to be one of the most explosive months in AI history. OpenAI dropped GPT-5.5, Anthropic sparked debate by withholding Claude Mythos, and new releases from Google, DeepSeek, and other Chinese labs pushed reasoning, agentic capabilities, and multimodality to new heights.

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