DeepSeek's second round of financing has signed its first batch today, with a valuation of 500 billion yuan

DeepSeek's parent company, DeepSeek, completed the first round of signing for a new financing round on August 10 in Hangzhou. This round of financing has a scale of 50 billion yuan, corresponding to a pre-investment valuation of about 500 billion yuan, which is an increase of over 40% compared to the first round of financing completed in June (with a valuation of about 350 billion yuan). The earliest deadline for the first batch of fund delivery is August 30.

This round of financing has a minimum investment threshold of 5 billion yuan, and the funds will mainly be used for computing power investment, model research, human resource expansion, and potential preparations for domestic listing. The fund entry paths are divided into two: part will directly enter DeepSeek's parent company, and part will enter a limited partnership controlled by founder Liang Wenfeng. Previously, DeepSeek briefly paused financing contacts at the end of July and resumed in early August. The new version of the model, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, was officially launched on July 31. According to OpenRouter data, the model reached a call volume of 72.2 trillion tokens in its first week, topping the global charts. The company has recently announced plans to raise API pricing and introduce a peak and off-peak pricing mechanism.