DeepSeek raises ~$7.4B at >$50B valuation in first external round

DeepSeek closed a record ~$7.4B (>50B yuan) round structured to preserve founder control, with Liang Wenfeng contributing ~20B yuan, Tencent ~10B, and CATL ~5B; only China's state AI fund received voting equity.

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