宁德时代与腾讯领投 DeepSeek 新一轮融资，公司计划 2027 年初 IPO
CATL and Tencent back Deepseek's ballooning funding round as the AI startup eyes a 2027 IPO
据 Bloomberg 报道，DeepSeek 即将完成一轮至少 120 亿美元的融资，最初目标约 75 亿美元、估值约 750 亿美元，知情人士称总额可能接近 150 亿美元，宁德时代和腾讯出资份额最大。融资完成后 DeepSeek 计划重组，于 2027 年初 IPO，并正在建设一座配备至少 16 万颗华为 AI 芯片的数据中心。创始人梁文锋希望继续开发权重自由可用的开源模型；公司今年 6 月已完成首轮外部融资，估值超 500 亿美元，4 月发布了 V4-Pro 和 V4-Flash 预览版，同时自研推理芯片以减少对 Nvidia 和华为的依赖。
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Deepseek is close to raising at least $12 billion in a new funding round, Bloomberg reports. The Chinese AI startup originally aimed to raise about $7.5 billion at a valuation of roughly $75 billion. People familiar with the matter say the total could approach $15 billion. Battery maker CATL and Tencent are contributing the largest shares. The strong investor interest stems from Deepseek's V4-Flash model, which has set new benchmarks for cost and performance against Anthropic and OpenAI.
After the round closes, Deepseek plans to restructure for an IPO in early 2027. The company is building a data center with at least 160,000 AI chips from Huawei. Founder Liang Wenfeng wants to keep developing open models with freely available weights. CATL declined to comment. Tencent and Deepseek didn't respond.
Deepseek had paused the round after comments by Liang about the company's reliance on Nvidia chips went viral. In June, the company closed its first external funding round at about $7.4 billion with a valuation above $50 billion. Deepseek released V4-Pro and V4-Flash as preview versions in April and is also working on its own inference chip to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Huawei.