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Who owns DeepSeek?

1 of the world’s richest people holds DeepSeek in our tracked profiles.

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  1. Liang WenfengAI & tech
    Founder & CEODeepSeek (Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence) · nearly 90% (pre-Series A, per TechCrunch) · as of May 2026
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    DeepSeek (Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence)
    Role
    Founder & CEO; controlling shareholder
    Stake
    nearly 90% (pre-Series A, per TechCrunch)
    Stake as of
    2026-05-06
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Recent moves

Oct 9, 2026 edition
Liang WenfengInvestmentAI & techPrivateAI read · ▲ Expansion

DeepSeek's new funding round swells toward $15 billion

The move

DeepSeek is close to securing at least 80 billion yuan (about $12 billion) in a new funding round that could reach roughly 100 billion yuan (about $15 billion) based on signed term sheets, with Tencent and battery maker CATL committing the largest amounts.

Why it matters

The round would value founder Liang Wenfeng's AI lab far above its first outside round earlier in 2026, and ties two of China's biggest corporate names, Tencent's Ma Huateng and CATL's Robin Zeng, directly to its growth.

The bear case

Neither DeepSeek, Tencent nor CATL has publicly confirmed the terms, and the round was reportedly paused once already after comments from Liang about reliance on Nvidia chips went viral.

What to watch

Whether the round closes near $15 billion and whether DeepSeek proceeds with a flagged 2027 Shanghai STAR Market listing.

Source · CNBCRead original ↗Report an error
Oct 7, 2026 edition
Liang WenfengInvestmentAI & techPrivateAI read · ▲ Bullish

DeepSeek raises $12B+ with Tencent and CATL backing 2027 IPO push

The move

DeepSeek is targeting at least $12 billion in new funding, with the round potentially reaching roughly $15 billion (about 100 billion yuan) after demand outstripped its original 50-billion-yuan target, Bloomberg and CNBC reported Oct. 6. Tencent (Ma Huateng) and CATL (Robin Zeng) have committed some of the largest amounts. The raise was expected to close this month. DeepSeek has hired CITIC Securities to prepare for a possible listing on China's STAR Market as soon as 2027, and is building a data center in Inner Mongolia that will use at least 160,000 Huawei AI accelerators instead of Nvidia hardware.

Why it matters

This is one of the largest private AI funding rounds in China's history, and the Huawei chip commitment shows DeepSeek deliberately building outside Nvidia's ecosystem.

The bear case

A STAR Market listing is still a year or more away and depends on Chinese regulators, DeepSeek's model momentum holding up, and investor appetite for AI stocks not cooling in the meantime.

What to watch

Confirmation that the funding round has closed and at what final size and valuation.

Source · American BazaarRead original ↗Report an error
Sep 26, 2026 edition
Liang WenfengProduct launchAI & techPrivateAI read · — Technical

DeepSeek details an AI training system built for scale

The move

DeepSeek published a paper on September 23 describing DSec, an internal system for managing sandboxes used to train AI agents. A single production unit spans about 160 nodes, supports roughly 3 million sandboxes a day and can create more than 5,000 sandboxes per second. Founder Liang Wenfeng is listed among the paper's more than 130 authors.

Why it matters

It shows DeepSeek is putting serious engineering effort into the infrastructure behind agentic AI, not just model releases, as it competes with far more heavily funded US labs.

The bear case

Publishing a research paper isn't the same as shipping a product; there's no indication yet that DSec powers any consumer-facing DeepSeek release.

What to watch

Whether DeepSeek ties DSec to a new agent product launch.

Source · TechNodeRead original ↗Report an error

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