BusinessFunding / M&ABusiness, Funding & Industry · Policy & Regulation1 source · Oct 22, 2026

DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions

DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.

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Before this

  1. Oct 22, 2026Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Method
  2. Oct 21, 2026The Huawei-DeepSeek Symbiosis
  3. Oct 21, 2026China protests the US Deepseek ban while blocking ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at home
  4. Oct 20, 2026Latest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China
  5. Oct 20, 2026[AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback
  6. Oct 20, 2026US bans Deepseek technology across federal civilian agencies

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