DeepSeek is in early talks for a new funding round at a $71 billion pre-money valuation.

Released DSpark speculative decoding framework

Began developing custom inference ASICs to cut GPU dependency

China's domestic AI chip budget share rises to 46%, driven by DeepSeek and Zhipu exploring custom silicon

Raised $7B in first major funding round, abandoning no-funding pledge

Plans to launch Harness AI coding agent team to compete with Claude Code

CATL invested in DeepSeek's first funding round, committing over $1B to AI data center energy infrastructure.