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, 2026DeepSeek 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, 2026Goldman 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, 2026OpenAI posted a role paying up to $205K to make ChatGPT better at investment-banking work, while separately hiring over 100 ex-Wall Street bankers for a project training AI on financial modeling and diligence.
Jul 8, 2026Taktile raised a $110 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives to scale its AI decisioning platform, which lets banks and insurers automate underwriting, claims, fraud detection and anti-money-laundering workflows with human oversight. The round is a vote of confidence that regulated financial institutions will pay for AI that makes high-stakes decisions auditable rather than just faster.
Jun 24, 2026