Investors estimated the DeepSeek startup at up to $50 billion.

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup, will hold an investment round where it can raise up to $50 billion. This was reported on May 6 by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources.

According to them, some investors estimated DeepSeek at $50 billion during recent negotiations. The newspaper writes that this estimate is significantly higher than the estimated range of $ 10-30 billion, which was discussed by investors a few weeks earlier.

It is noted that the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, which was established a year ago, may also invest in DeepSeek. The fund's capital is estimated at around $8.8 billion. The startup itself has announced plans to raise at least several hundred million dollars.

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Bloomberg reported on April 7 that American companies OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have begun working together to limit Chinese competitors who extract results from advanced artificial intelligence models. OpenAI confirmed its participation in the information exchange and pointed to a recent memo to Congress accusing the Chinese company DeepSeek of trying to "freely use the capabilities developed by OpenAI and other American frontier laboratories."