DeepSeek's $92B valuation round drew Tencent, CATL and chip middlemen, The Information reports
Gregory_C_Allen · x · 2026-11-15
The Information reports exclusively that DeepSeek's funding round at a $92 billion valuation attracted Tencent, CATL, and a group of companies pitched as a major source of black-market Nvidia chips, tying the AI lab's capital raise to its compute procurement channels.
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