DeepSeek's $14.9B round: China's AI answer to the West
DeepSeek doubles its second funding round to 100 billion yuan at an unchanged $74.5B valuation, with Tencent, CATL, SMIC and Geely among investors.
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DeepSeek doubles its second funding round to 100 billion yuan at an unchanged $74.5B valuation, with Tencent, CATL, SMIC and Geely among investors.
Anthropic opens its books at a pre-IPO investor day targeting a $1.8-2 trillion valuation, with trading aimed before Thanksgiving.
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