AI· Jul 31, 2026
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newest first- Jul 31, 2026AIDeepSeek Ships V4-Flash Update That Beats Its Own Flagship→
- Jul 24, 2026IPOThe Case For a Chinese AI IPO Wave Riding CXMT's Momentum→
- Jul 23, 2026FUNDINGDeepSeek Seeks $71B Valuation, Preps China IPO Filing~$71B Valuation Target→
- Jul 23, 2026IPOChina's AI Labs Race Toward A Wave Of IPOs→
- Jul 23, 2026IPOMoonshot, DeepSeek Both Race Toward IPOs After Kimi Shock→
- Jul 22, 2026AILed by DeepSeek, 10 Frontier Labs Join Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June→
- Jul 21, 2026AIFrontier Labs and Robotics Keep Dominating Crunchbase's Unicorn Board→
- Jul 20, 2026IPODeepSeek's STAR Market Path: A $71B Test for China's AI IPOs$71B pre-money talks→
- Jul 20, 2026AIGemini's Stumble Widens the Gap at AI's Frontier$200B Alphabet cap lost→
- Jul 18, 2026AIDeepSeek Is Reportedly Building Its Own AI Inference ChipIn-house inference chip→
- Jul 14, 2026IPODeepSeek in Talks to Raise $1.5B, Then IPO$1.5B raise→
- Jul 12, 2026AIGoldman Names Its Preferred Chinese AI ModelsPT HK$1,880 (Zhipu)→
- Jul 7, 2026AIChina's Open-Weight Models Keep Closing the Gap$98B China chip self-reliance push→
- Jun 29, 2026AIDeepSeek and Peking University Open-Source DSpark, Speeding LLM Inference by Up to 85%Up to 85% faster→
- Jun 20, 2026AIHuawei-Led Team Post-Trains DeepSeek's 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Model on Ascend Chips, Not Nvidia→
- Jun 16, 2026FUNDINGDeepSeek Raises $7.4B -- Becomes China's Most Valuable AI Startup at $50B+$7.4B→
- Jun 16, 2026FUNDINGDeepSeek's $7.4B Round Backed by Tencent, CATL and JD$7.4B→
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DeepSeek Ships V4-Flash Update That Beats Its Own Flagship
DeepSeek released a retrained build of its V4-Flash model, designated V4-Flash-0731, that scores higher than the company's own premium V4-Pro-Preview model on all nine published agent and coding benchmarks despite keeping the identical architecture and size.
Jul 31, 2026IPO· Jul 24, 2026
The Case For a Chinese AI IPO Wave Riding CXMT's Momentum
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The Case For a Chinese AI IPO Wave Riding CXMT's Momentum
Value Add Pulse analysis: CXMT's $8.6 billion Shanghai debut and the Moonshot/DeepSeek open-model rush suggest Chinese AI and semiconductor companies are finding a public-market window U.S. peers currently lack.
Jul 24, 2026FUNDING· Jul 23, 2026
DeepSeek Seeks $71B Valuation, Preps China IPO Filing
FUNDING~$71B Valuation Target
DeepSeek Seeks $71B Valuation, Preps China IPO Filing
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is in talks for a new private funding round at a pre-money valuation of roughly $71 billion, up sharply from about $50 billion just months ago, while simultaneously preparing to file for a mainland China IPO as soon as this year.
Jul 23, 2026IPO· Jul 23, 2026
China's AI Labs Race Toward A Wave Of IPOs
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China's AI Labs Race Toward A Wave Of IPOs
Moonshot, DeepSeek, MiniMax and Z.ai are all pursuing or completing public listings within months of each other, a compressed wave of Chinese AI IPOs that resets how investors value the entire sector.
Jul 23, 2026IPO· Jul 22, 2026
Moonshot, DeepSeek Both Race Toward IPOs After Kimi Shock
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Moonshot, DeepSeek Both Race Toward IPOs After Kimi Shock
Moonshot AI is preparing a Hong Kong listing within six months and DeepSeek is targeting Shanghai's STAR Market by Q2 2027, as China's AI labs race toward public markets after Kimi K3's shock.
Jul 22, 2026AI· Jul 22, 2026
Led by DeepSeek, 10 Frontier Labs Join Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June
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Led by DeepSeek, 10 Frontier Labs Join Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June
Crunchbase News reports ten AI and semiconductor companies, led by DeepSeek, crossed the billion-dollar valuation threshold in June, showing unicorn creation is still concentrated in frontier AI.
Jul 22, 2026AI· Jul 21, 2026
Frontier Labs and Robotics Keep Dominating Crunchbase's Unicorn Board
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Frontier Labs and Robotics Keep Dominating Crunchbase's Unicorn Board
Frontier AI labs and robotics companies topped Crunchbase's new-unicorn count for consecutive months in 2026, with DeepSeek joining Chinese peers like Moonshot AI and StepFun in raising billion-dollar rounds this quarter.
Jul 21, 2026IPO· Jul 20, 2026
DeepSeek's STAR Market Path: A $71B Test for China's AI IPOs
IPO$71B pre-money talks
DeepSeek's STAR Market Path: A $71B Test for China's AI IPOs
DeepSeek is in talks to raise at a $71 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a targeted Shanghai STAR Market listing, weeks after its first-ever outside funding round -- a test case for how China's AI IPO pipeline prices against US frontier labs.
Jul 20, 2026AI· Jul 20, 2026
Gemini's Stumble Widens the Gap at AI's Frontier
AI$200B Alphabet cap lost
Gemini's Stumble Widens the Gap at AI's Frontier
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro delay wiped roughly $200 billion off Alphabet's market cap, landing as Anthropic's revenue keeps compounding and DeepSeek undercuts frontier pricing by 75% -- the frontier race just got more uneven.
Jul 20, 2026AI· Jul 18, 2026
DeepSeek Is Reportedly Building Its Own AI Inference Chip
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DeepSeek Is Reportedly Building Its Own AI Inference Chip
DeepSeek has quietly been hiring chip-design engineers and holding talks with foundry and memory partners to build its own inference chip, a push to reduce reliance on both Nvidia and Huawei as it scales toward an IPO.
Jul 18, 2026IPO· Jul 14, 2026
DeepSeek in Talks to Raise $1.5B, Then IPO
IPO$1.5B raise
DeepSeek in Talks to Raise $1.5B, Then IPO
DeepSeek is reportedly in talks to raise $1.5 billion in private funding as a step toward an eventual IPO, following Goldman Sachs naming it a preferred Chinese AI model.
Jul 14, 2026AI· Jul 12, 2026
Goldman Names Its Preferred Chinese AI Models
AIPT HK$1,880 (Zhipu)
Goldman Names Its Preferred Chinese AI Models
Goldman Sachs research named Zhipu, DeepSeek and ByteDance its preferred Chinese AI models, ranked ahead of Alibaba and Tencent on speed-to-market, and recommended rotating out of Korean AI stocks into a long China AI basket.
Jul 12, 2026AI· Jul 6, 2026
China's Open-Weight Models Keep Closing the Gap
AI$98B China chip self-reliance push
China's Open-Weight Models Keep Closing the Gap
Tencent, Zhipu, Alibaba and DeepSeek are locked in an intensifying open-weight model race, backed by a domestic chip industry drawing roughly $98 billion in spending as China reduces reliance on Nvidia.
Jul 6, 2026AI· Jun 29, 2026
DeepSeek and Peking University Open-Source DSpark, Speeding LLM Inference by Up to 85%
AIUp to 85% faster
DeepSeek and Peking University Open-Source DSpark, Speeding LLM Inference by Up to 85%
DeepSeek and Peking University open-sourced DSpark, a speculative-decoding framework that boosts per-user LLM generation speed by 60-85% -- and up to 661% throughput under tight latency constraints -- without hardware upgrades or model retraining. Released under the MIT license and already live in DeepSeek's V4-Flash and V4-Pro production models, it is another Chinese efficiency breakthrough aimed at slashing the cost of serving AI.
Jun 29, 2026AI· Jun 20, 2026
Huawei-Led Team Post-Trains DeepSeek's 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Model on Ascend Chips, Not Nvidia
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Huawei-Led Team Post-Trains DeepSeek's 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Model on Ascend Chips, Not Nvidia
A research group including Huawei completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek's 1.6-trillion-parameter V4-Pro model using a cluster of at least 1,000 Huawei Ascend 910C chips -- demonstrating that a frontier-scale Chinese model can be trained end-to-end on domestic silicon. It's a milestone in China's drive to break free of US chips and the CUDA ecosystem.
Jun 20, 2026FUNDING· Jun 16, 2026
DeepSeek Raises $7.4B -- Becomes China's Most Valuable AI Startup at $50B+
FUNDING$7.4B
DeepSeek Raises $7.4B -- Becomes China's Most Valuable AI Startup at $50B+
DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round backed by Tencent, CATL, JD.com, NetEase and IDG Capital, vaulting past a $50B valuation to become China's most valuable AI startup. The raise is a direct answer to the US frontier labs and a statement that the model race is now a two-superpower contest.
Jun 16, 2026FUNDING· Jun 16, 2026
DeepSeek's $7.4B Round Backed by Tencent, CATL and JD
FUNDING$7.4B
DeepSeek's $7.4B Round Backed by Tencent, CATL and JD
The largest AI financing out of China this year: $7.4B from a strategic syndicate that hands DeepSeek both capital and distribution. At a $50B+ valuation, it is now the anchor of China's frontier-model ambitions.
Jun 16, 2026