DeepSeek enters talks to raise $300M to better compete with frontier AI labs: report

DeepSeek (DEEPSEEK) has initiated its first fundraising campaign in hopes of raising $300M for a valuation of more than $10B, ...
Crypto Briefing

DeepSeek seeks $300M in first outside funding at $10B valuation

DeepSeek is reportedly seeking $300 million in its first outside funding round at a $10 billion valuation after years of ...
Wired

The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On

As the relationship between the US and its European allies shows signs of strain, AI labs across the continent are searching for inventive ways to close the gap with American rivals that have so far ...
MIT Technology Review

How DeepSeek ripped up the AI playbook—and why everyone’s going to follow its lead

The Chinese firm has pulled back the curtain to expose how the top labs may be building their next-generation models. Now things get interesting. When the Chinese firm DeepSeek dropped a large ...
Bleeping Computer

DeepSeek AI tools impersonated by infostealer malware on PyPI

Threat actors are taking advantage of the rise in popularity of the DeepSeek to promote two malicious infostealer packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI), where they impersonated developer tools ...