The reporter confirmed from several tier-one investors that DeepSeek has recently completed about 100 billion yuan in financing, setting a new single-round financing record for China's AI industry. According to reports, the target for this round of financing was raised from 80 billion yuan in the previous period to 100 billion yuan. The old shareholders, Ningde Times, and Tencent Holdings participated in this round of financing as the main investors, while IDG Capital, Fortis Capital, and Pickup Capital continued to invest. Most of the new investors are industrial capital, including Lenovo's Junlian Capital, Zhaoyi Innovation's Shixi Capital, Geely Auto Industry Fund, SMIC Juyuan, and Hengdian Capital, which was added later. In response to the industrial logic of this round of financing, an investor told the Securities Times reporter that the development of the current big model is essentially an engineering issue. The underlying architecture is no longer clearly a secret; the core barriers are training data sets and computing power resources. Therefore, DeepSeek put forward clear resource coordination requirements for investors in this financing, requiring all interested investors to explain what kind of data support and business collaboration can be provided to DeepSeek. Under this direction, institutions with deep industrial resources and collaborative capabilities have gained more shares, such as Hengdian Capital, etc., received a larger share of investment.

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