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High-Flyer hedge-fund backing + the $7-7.4B first external round (Jun-2026, closed) + an attempted-then-paused $1.5B second round (Jul-2026); ultra-cheap API (V2 at 2 RMB per million output tokens, since cut further — see gravity)
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- Wikipedia — DeepSeek $300M external round (Apr 2026); IPO prep to list as soon as 2027 — earlier/superseded figure, see capital.available
- Wikipedia — DeepSeek (attrib. Financial Times) V2 API pricing 2 RMB per million output tokens (FT)
- Google News RSS — DeepSeek funding/investment/compute sweep $7-7.4B first external round closed Jun-2026 at ~$50-52B post-money
- Google News RSS — DeepSeek $71B infrastructure funding sweep $1.5B second round sought at ~$71-74B valuation, explicitly earmarked toward 'owning infrastructure behind its price advantage' (compute/data-center expansion) — PAUSED Jul-25/27
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