BEIJING, June 17 — Investors have valued Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek at more than US$50 billion (RM203 billion) in the company’s first fundraising round,...

DeepSeek has closed its first outside funding, over $7bn, with founder Liang Wenfeng putting in a controlling share and Tencent and CATL as top backers.

Chinese Artificial Intelligence lab DeepSeek has closed its first funding round that raised more than 50 billion yuan ($7.40 billion) under an unusual deal structure,…