DeepSeek reportedly resumes talks for an approximately US$8 billion round

a report, citing media reportsing, said DeepSeek had resumed a second funding round seeking nearly US$8 billion at a proposed valuation of about 500 billion yuan (roughly US$74 billion), with Monolith among parties in discussions. DeepSeek did not publicly confirm the terms, and no closing, regulatory filing or investor announcement was available.

Impact: a round of this scale could accelerate Chinese model and infrastructure investment. Because the information concerns private talks and flows through another publication’s anonymous sources, it is an investment signal—not verified financing.