DeepSeek is preparing an IPO in Shanghai at a valuation of about $74.5 billion
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The lab that became famous for cheap open models is going public — open SI is becoming big business.
According to the South China Morning Post, DeepSeek has hired four financial institutions, including CITIC Securities, for a listing on the STAR Market tech board. A pre-IPO round at a valuation of about 500 billion yuan is under way in parallel. In August the company resumed raising almost $8 billion and is planning a data center in Inner Mongolia of about 1 gigawatt.
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