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.
Masayoshi Son seeks up to $100B from Gulf investors for a new AI acquisition fund, on top of $65B already committed to OpenAI.
Broadcom arranges record $50B+ private credit package for OpenAI's Nexus chip program, with Apollo and Blackstone in talks.
Elon Musk's SpaceX is raising $40 billion led by Apollo to buy Nvidia chips, targeting $100B AI compute ARR and orbital compute by 2027.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is closing a $12-15B funding round backed by Tencent and CATL, targeting a 2027 IPO at a $75B valuation.
Bloomberg reports OpenAI is raising $30B at a $1.4T valuation with UAE funds and BlackRock.
Broadcom banks assemble $60B debt package — $42B senior tranche for Anthropic, $18B Blackstone-led junior tranche — expanding the $42B loan revealed yesterday.