Daily brief: DeepSeek hits $1B annualized revenue, targets $7.5B raise
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-25
Tech news roundup highlights:
- DeepSeek: annualized revenue run-rate reached $1B (under $500M months ago), boosted by an API price hike to 2.3–4.5x; Liang Wenfeng says no customer churn. Raising a second round targeting $7.5B (50B RMB) at a 50B RMB valuation, preparing a Shanghai IPO.
- Tencent: QClaw agent product shutting down Dec 24, 2026, with a migration tool to WorkBuddy.
- Anthropic: plans a Palantir-style structure giving seven co-founders majority voting power ahead of a possible IPO.
- Google: DeepMind chief says Gemini 4 is coming soon; Patreon co-founder Sam Yang joins OpenAI to lead a Creator Product team.
- ByteDance: Doubao denies "conversation team cut in half" — it's a reorganization affecting 11 people in a <50-person team, 3 departures.
- Alibaba: eighth time on Fortune's Change the World list; DAMO Academy released an esophageal cancer CT screening model validated on 80k+ cases.
- Also: Meta's handheld MuseCharm device (Dec launch), leaked Optimus Gen 3 production design, China installed 354k industrial robots in 2025 (59% of global total).
Related event: DeepSeek Hits $1B ARR, Targets $70B Valuation in New Funding Round(11 posts)→
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