DeepSeek to Raise Over $7.4 Billion Amid Anthropic's Mythos Threat

According to Beating Monitor, The Information, citing sources familiar with the matter, reported that DeepSeek has decided to abandon its founder-funded model and launch its first round of financing exceeding RMB 50 billion (approximately $7.4 billion). The immediate catalyst was Anthropic’s April demonstration of its security-focused model, Mythos, which possesses the capability to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities. DeepSeek’s research team assessed that, in the face of models requiring massive computational power and data stacking—potentially even posing threats at a national security level—it would be impossible to compete in the computational arms race using only Liang Wenheng’s personal wealth; external funding is essential to expand the compute pool. Last year, in response to U.S. export controls, DeepSeek attempted to migrate its training and deployment systems from NVIDIA’s CUDA ecosystem to Huawei chips, a process that required rewriting core software and delayed the release of its next-generation model by 15 months. Previously, DeepSeek operated with an extremely flat structure, lacking dedicated HR and PR departments, with all personnel reporting directly to Liang Wenheng. Following the completion of this substantial financing round, the team is now beginning to recruit functional roles in legal, finance, and human resources.