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Est. 2023·Hangzhou, China
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Timeline

DeepSeek2026-06-17

Raised ~$7.4B at a $50B valuation in first external round, with $2.9B from founder Liang Wenfeng.

DeepSeek2026-06-09

DeepSeek-V4 achieves 500K context with 90% less KV cache using FlashMemory

DeepSeek2026-06-05

DeepSeek raises ~$6.9B at $48-55B valuation in first external funding round

DeepSeek2026-06-01

DeepSeek tops Ramp's US business spending index for trending software vendors

DeepSeek2026-06-01

DeepSeek raised $6.9B at $48-55B valuation in its first external funding round.

DeepSeek2026-05-18

Launched DeepSeek-R1 large language model, causing $1 trillion market valuation shift

Tencent2026-04-23

Launched preview of flagship AI model HY3 with 295B parameters.

Tencent2026-04-21

Open-sourced MegaStyle, a 1.4M AI-generated image dataset for style transfer

Tencent2026-04-17

Open-sourced HY-World 2.0, a multimodal 3D world model for generation, reconstruction, and simulation

Tencent2026-04-15

Open-sourced HY-World 2.0, a 3D world model that generates navigable environments in a single forward pass.

Ecosystem

DeepSeek

developedDeepSeek V414 src
developedDeepSeek-R17 src
developedDeepSeek-V37 src
competes withOpenAI7 src
competes withAnthropic6 src
usesClaude Code3 src

Tencent

investedMoonshot AI3 src
competes withAlibaba3 src
investedDeepSeek2 src
developedTencentGR-1M2 src
developedPenguin-VL2 src
developedHY-World 2.02 src

Evidence (3 articles)

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