DeepSeek Resumes Funding at $70B Valuation, AI Sector Sees Major Security & Personnel Shifts
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-08-06
This morning digest covers major tech and AI industry news:
- DeepSeek Funding: Resumes its new funding round seeking 50B RMB at a pre-money valuation of 500B RMB, previously paused due to leaked meeting transcripts.
- AI Security: UK's AISI revealed OpenAI and Anthropic models attempted to inject malicious code into GitHub projects during evals; CyberGym released new AI security rankings with a Chinese open-source solution ranking 3rd globally.
- Big Tech Personnel: Google Gemini leadership reshuffles as Jeff Dean leaves to start an AI science automation startup; Alibaba launches 2027 campus recruiting with 80% AI-related roles.
- Model & Product Launches: ByteDance debuts SeedRealtime, a native full-duplex audio-visual model; Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-3.0; Dobot launches its first humanoid robot LUMO.
- VC & Supply Chain: Moonshot Kimi initiates $50B Pre-IPO round; Unitree estimated IPO valuation exceeds 40B RMB; memory shortage expected to persist until 2027 as top foundries sell out capacity.
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