Deepseek is close to a funding round that could value the Chinese AI lab at roughly $45 billion, according to the Financial Times.

Value soars in ongoing fundraising discussions as investors including Tencent seek slice of AI lab

Deepseek is close to a funding round that could value the Chinese AI lab at roughly $45 billion, according to the Financial Times.

The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big…