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Founder Liang Wenfeng plans to use a public listing to offer employee economic incentives and reduce talent attrition at the Chinese AI startup. DeepSeek engaged CITIC Securities to lead an initial public offering on Shanghai's STAR Market, with the firm planning to initiate the process this year.
The listing push follows a funding round at a reported $75 billion valuation, an increase from the $7.4 billion the company secured a few months ago. DeepSeek is also recruiting approximately 150 senior engineers to overhaul backend systems that have been strained by high user demand and the rollout of AI agents.
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- SOURCE@reuters“Shanghai's tech-focused STAR Market”x.com
- SUPPORT@dmjk001“希望通过IPO募集资金为员工提供经济激励，帮助公司留住人才”x.com
- SUPPORT@mark_k“raising fresh capital at a reported $75 billion valuation, just months after securing $7.4 billion”x.com
- SUPPORT@reutersbiz“Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek”x.com
- SUPPORT@reuters“domestic IPO, sources say”x.com
- SOURCE@jukan05“DeepSeek still does not have a chief financial officer and lacks a proper system for managing investor relations”x.com
- SUPPORT@zephyr_z9“deepseek has $500m of annual revenue run rate and is on track to spend an estimated $5B on compute this year”x.com
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