{
  "id": 10879,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3360626/ai-investor-mania-chinas-deepseek-chases-us70-billion-valuation-fresh-round",
  "title": "AI investor mania: China’s DeepSeek chases US$70 billion valuation in fresh round",
  "summary": "Chinese frontier artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek is in talks with investors to raise a new financing round at around US$70 billion pre-investment valuation, shortly after closing a landmark first round, reflecting unquenched investor enthusiasm for the company. The plan comes on the heels of the Chinese AI darling’s recently closed Series A funding round in June – its first external funding round – which brought in about US$7 billion and valued the Hangzhou-based firm at nearly US$60..",
  "authors": "Ben Jiang,Wency Chen",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": "deepseek",
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-07-15T06:11:30.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-16T05:10:56.605Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10879",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3360626/ai-investor-mania-chinas-deepseek-chases-us70-billion-valuation-fresh-round",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}