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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.

Citrini analyst Jukan shared content on platform X stating that industry insiders reported that Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis had previously planned to leave simultaneously with another co-founder, David Silver. However, Google management was concerned that this news could trigger a significant drop in stock prices, so they hoped to delay his departure. Reports indicate that after Google announced related adjustments, the company's stock did indeed decline. Ultimately, Hassabis was persuaded to take on the role of chairman of DeepMind to help facilitate a smooth transition and create space for a more appropriate departure from Google in the future.It is reported that as David Silver shifts to founding Ineffable Intelligence and John Jumper joins Anthropic, the core AI research and development force at DeepMind is undergoing changes. Some insiders believe that the center of gravity for AI model development at Google has now shifted more towards the Bay Area, leading to a decline in the importance of DeepMind. Internally, Google is focusing on the large language model Gemini to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic. Hassabis's adjustment reflects a long-standing strategic contradiction within Google: researchers are more focused on long-term scientific breakthroughs, while the commercial team is more concerned with AI products that can be quickly commercialized to drive revenue and stock price growth. Market predictions suggest that Hassabis may leave Google within a year and could potentially start a new venture.

DeepSeek has just participated in a strategic placement of YuTree Technology with approximately 141 million yuan. The head of the Harness team, Cui Tianyi, subsequently publicly criticized the description of DeepSeek in the related IPO materials.The materials claim that DeepSeek V4 "ranks among the top tier globally in performance, with programming capability only 0.3% weaker than Claude flagship." Cui Tianyi pointed out that in the V4 paper, only one SWE Verified score is close to Opus 4.6, with scores of 80.6 and 80.8 respectively, which cannot be directly generalized to mean that the overall programming capability is only 0.3% weaker.He sarcastically stated that such writing is hard not to be considered "pure fabrication." However, the criticism was aimed at the exaggerated statements in the intermediary materials.

According to data from the multi-model aggregation platform OpenRouter, from July 27 to August 2, DeepSeek V4 Flash topped the global AI large model usage ranking with a call volume of 7.22 trillion tokens. Data from the open-source platform OpenCode shows that this model alone processed 8 trillion tokens on August 1. Four out of the top five positions are occupied by Chinese large models: Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 (5.1 trillion), Tencent's Hunyuan Hy3 (5.01 trillion), and another DeepSeek V4 Flash model (3.45 trillion) ranked second to fourth, while OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna (2.99 trillion, a month-on-month increase of 738%) ranked fifth.The total call volume of Chinese large models last week reached 28.13 trillion tokens, surpassing the United States for 14 consecutive weeks, firmly holding the top position globally. The previously highly anticipated Kimi K3 fell out of the top ten this week, ranking 12th. It is noteworthy that free models are capturing an increasing share of traffic, with some models experiencing month-on-month growth exceeding 50%. Analysis indicates that domestic models have shifted from price competition to relying on inference performance and stable service capabilities, but companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to iterate, accelerating the internal competition and the pace of product iteration will determine user retention capabilities.

According to a report by a financial magazine, multiple trading insiders revealed that the large model company DeepSeek has restarted its second round of financing, planning to raise 50 billion yuan, with a pre-investment valuation of approximately 500 billion yuan, and plans to complete the signing by late August.Several investors mentioned that DeepSeek's second round of financing had at least started in mid-July, but was suddenly paused at the end of July. At that time, some investors on the negotiation standby list were informed that the plan to sign the financing agreement was postponed. According to media reports on July 26, DeepSeek paused its second round of financing, one reason being that DeepSeek's founder Liang Wenfeng was dissatisfied with widely circulated comments online, which mainly revolved around the suspected leak of the "transcript of the investor meeting."DeepSeek and the investors at the negotiation table hope that this financing can proceed discreetly after the restart. Currently, some investment institutions that had previously been actively in contact have stated that they have not received news of DeepSeek restarting the financing, and the channel remains in a paused state.

South Korean AI chip design company DeepX has completed the first transaction of its Series D financing, raising 4.2 billion won from existing investors BNW Investment Co. and DS Asset Management Co. The latest valuation is approximately 3.14 trillion won (about 2.2 billion USD), which is an increase of about 4 times compared to the previous round's valuation.

CryptoQuant analyst Zizcrypto stated that the current percentage of unrealized losses for Bitcoin is 35.2%, which means that approximately 35% of the tracked supply is in a state of unrealized loss. This indicator is still above 20%, but has now fallen below the deep pressure range of 40%, far below the similar capitulation drop zone of 60%.This indicator broke through 40% around the end of June, reaching 42.2%, then dropped to 30.4% around July 21, and subsequently rebounded to 35.2%. In previous major bear market phases shown in the chart, after the first test of the 40% area, there is usually a period of pressure consolidation, after which the indicator tends to approach or exceed 60%, often leading to a capitulation-like drop. Zizcrypto believes that the current supply of unrealized losses is still high, but the latest data has fallen below the deep pressure range and has not yet reached capitulation-level pressure. However, levels above 40% and 60% remain key areas to watch.

According to Jinshi, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission jointly announced new measures to deepen practical cooperation and closely coordinate development between the two markets, covering various areas such as listing financing, index cooperation, futures products, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), internationalization of financial institutions, green finance, and facilitation of professional qualifications.

According to IT Home, the national supercomputing internet has officially launched the DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 model API calling service and model files.This version has undergone extensive post-training, significantly enhancing the agent's instruction-following capabilities, with performance in multiple benchmark tests comparable to the strongest closed-source models. Enterprises and developers can access it with one click without the need for environment configuration.The platform's AI community has gathered over 1,700 open-source large models and has become the first national resource pool of super-intelligent integrated computing power at the level of 100,000 cards.

According to Jinshi, the People's Bank of China held a work meeting for the second half of 2026, emphasizing the steady deepening of financial reform and opening up to the outside world. The meeting pointed out the active development of inter-central bank currency swaps and local currency settlement cooperation, supporting more foreign institutions to participate in the issuance of panda bonds, and promoting the construction of the cross-border payment system for the renminbi, as well as improving the cross-border infrastructure for digital renminbi.

According to Jinshi News, Qianwen Assistant has undergone extensive testing within Tesla's vehicle system and is expected to be integrated soon. Insiders reveal that Qianwen has completed a large number of tests in the real vehicle environment of Tesla, possessing the capabilities of "listening and responding, controlling the car, navigating, and handling tasks."In the future, the functions of Qianwen on Tesla's vehicle system may exceed the traditional definition of a "voice assistant." Currently, Alibaba Cloud and Tesla China have not made any official response to this.

DeepSeek releases update log, DeepSeek V4 Flash official version API is now live for public testing. The model structure, size, and DeepSeek V4 Flash preview of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 remain consistent, with only post-training being redone.The official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro will be released as soon as possible.

According to Bloomberg citing informed sources, DeepSeek plans to build a 1GW AI data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia. The company will construct its own machine room while also renting computing power from other enterprises.Some capacity is expected to go online by the end of 2027 or early 2028. It is still unclear which type of chips the project will use.The 1GW scale will exceed the currently operational AI data centers of Chinese companies, but it is still lower than the 3GW and 5GW projects planned by American companies. DeepSeek is known for saving training computing power and is now also starting to build heavy infrastructure.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "LoL Deep Exchange Team vs. Zero Point Team LCP Group Stage" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Odd" option in the sub-market "Total Number of Kills Odd/Even" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 50.5% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 39.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Jinshi reports, Google's Deepmind has launched the Gemini Robotics ER 2 model.