DeepSeek raises its targeted funding round to $10 billion from an earlier $7 billion goal as founder Liang Wenfeng says the company will keep AI models open-sourced while pursuing AGI without short-term commercialization

— Investor interest remains strong despite longer path to revenue.

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OPZE#1497Zephyr|@ZEPHYR_Z9

Looks like funding round increased from $7B to $10B

5:46 AM · May 22, 2026 View on X

QUOTE POSTT(#420Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)|@TEORTAXESTEX

Now we're talking. $10B should be enough to keep up. I think they kind of keep hoping he'll defect and say "okay, THIS is my price, now we'll focus on products and revenue." But the reason DeepSeek is worth that much is that he won't.

12:52 PM · May 22, 2026 · 2.9K Views