DeepSeek made AI cheap. Now it is raising $8bn and buying robots
DeepSeek spent early 2025 proving that a good AI model did not have to cost a fortune. This week it has been busy proving it can spend one. In a handful of days, the Chinese lab reopened a multi-billion-dollar fundraising. It took a stake in the country’s best-known robot maker. And it told customers it […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Published: 6 August 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 8 August 2026
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