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In Brief Posted: 10:20 AM PDT · May 6, 2026 Julie Bort DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first round of venture capital, and in just a few weeks, its potential valuation has soared from $20 billion to $45 billion, the Financial Times… …
… For running larger models, like DeepSeek v4, Pae recommends systems with about 128GB of RAM. …
… The company also looked at DeepSeek in its analysis, but it didn’t fit the pattern. While DeepSeek R1 drove 28 million downloads after its January 2025 release , it wasn’t a typical model comparison event. …
… DeepSeek, perhaps the most popular Chinese AI lab, is reportedly in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, at a valuation of about $45 billion. …
… OpenRouter provides access to over 400 models, including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI, and DeepSeek, it says. …
… China’s AI progress is real — DeepSeek’s release earlier this year sent something close to a panic through parts of the industry — but that progress is constrained below the model layer. …