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

Trained DeepSeek-V3 in ~2 minutes on MLPerf v6.0, beating AWS record by 43%

First cloud provider to validate Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72

First cloud provider to validate and deploy Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 at rack scale

Brought up first Vera Rubin NVL72 system