DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO

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DeepSeek, a Chinese LLM developer, is raising approximately $1.5 billion at a $71 billion valuation and preparing for a 2027 IPO, potentially as early as end of 2026. The company raised $7 billion in June and accounts for 23% of enterprise AI tokens processed via Vercel.