China’s AI company Deepseek has created global headings to support large -scale sale in US high -tech stocks on Monday, decreasing by almost 20 %.
In China, the hype around Deepseek has risen from shares that are assumed to be the shares of several public companies. Problem: There is no evidence that these companies have invested so far or have cooperated with DeepSeek in the first place.
Deepseek’s investor Huajin Capital and ZHEJIANG ORIENT have increased by 10 % on Monday. On the other hand, the Sublime CHINA INFORMATION research company jumped to 20 % to cooperate with the AI model Deepseek. (These are the biggest benefit of China’s exchange.)
However, SUBLIME CHINA information denied the cooperation with DeepSeek in the disclosure and refused to disclose DeepSeek investment in Chinese business news outlets. Investment company Zhijiang Orient has not responded to a request from TechCrunch, but there is no public evidence that he is an investor in Deepseek.
This rumor seems to have been born from an unfounded Chinese list (it has become a virus), which is a public company that seems to be linked to DeepSeek.
Deepseek, a private company, has never published VC investment, but Chinese corporate records do not mention VC companies on DeepSeek cap tables. Instead, its founder Liang Wenfeng is listed as a useful owner of all three entities for forming DeepSeek. Deepseek has been funded by Quant Firm High-Flyer (of which Wenfeng is CEO) and has no plan to raise funds, and Wenfeng told the Chinese media outlet wave last year.
In an interview with the same outlet in 2023, Wenfeng stated that there were discussions with various funds, but VC seems to have “hesitated” in investing in research -oriented companies, and instead commercialized. I gave priority to.
Deepseek did not respond to the TechCrunch comment request.