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The BAI platform announced user data for May 11, showing that the platform gained 8,756 new users that day. While maintaining strong growth, the proportion of Stripe payments among the core paying group has risen to 69.0%, indicating a steady improvement in retention rates among traditional developers and production-level users. In terms of business structure, the DeepSeek-V4 series has contributed nearly 60% of Token consumption due to its extreme cost advantages. This series of models, with ultra-low latency, high concurrency, and high throughput capabilities, is becoming an indispensable core execution engine in the AI Agent era. The B.AI platform will continue to provide developers with efficient and economical model services, helping more AI-native applications to be implemented.

According to the Daily Economic News, DeepSeek is rarely launching a massive financing plan, simultaneously attracting two major companies, Tencent and Alibaba. Previously, there were media reports that Alibaba and DeepSeek had a breakdown in negotiations. In response, an insider revealed exclusively to reporters on May 9 that Alibaba should not have been in negotiations.

DeepSeek's financing negotiations with Alibaba have broken down. DeepSeek launched a massive financing round, attracting major companies like Tencent and Alibaba to participate, but the two sides ultimately failed to reach an agreement. The core conflict lies in Alibaba's desire to strengthen its AI ecosystem through investment, while DeepSeek, as an independent model company, insists on minimizing binding terms and maintaining technological independence, unwilling to accept excessive ecosystem ties.DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has long rejected external equity financing. Although this time he has opened the door for the first time, his bottom line remains unchanged, with the most emphasis on offers with "the least additional conditions." DeepSeek's current financing round is valued at approximately 300 billion RMB (about 45 billion USD), with the fundraising focus on supplementing computing power and R&D funds, while also providing a market valuation anchor for employees to retain talent. Tencent had proposed to subscribe for up to 20% of the shares, but this was politely declined by DeepSeek as they did not want to relinquish a large proportion of control. Ultimately, the China National Investment Fund and others may lead the investment, with relatively loose terms that align more closely with DeepSeek's technological idealism.

DeepSeek plans to raise up to 50 billion yuan.Deepseek plans to release the V4 model update in June.

According to Reuters, China's largest state-supported semiconductor investment institution—the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (Big Fund)—is negotiating to lead the first round of financing for DeepSeek, which may value the cutting-edge AI laboratory at around $45 billion. The report cites four informed sources indicating that negotiations are still ongoing.

According to Caijing magazine, the AI large model company DeepSeek is in talks with Tencent and Alibaba for financing, with the two investors expected to invest a total of $1.8 billion, valuing this round of financing at approximately $20 billion. The transaction plan has not yet been finalized, and DeepSeek, Tencent, and Alibaba have not publicly confirmed it.Sources in the transaction revealed that the main reason for DeepSeek's open financing is the recent serious talent loss. Several core researchers have left one after another to join ByteDance, Tencent, Xiaomi, and the autonomous driving company Yuanrong Qihang. Meanwhile, competitors Zhiyu Technology and MiniMax have listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and the Dark Side of the Moon has completed three rounds of financing in the first three months of this year, with a valuation more than quadrupling since the end of last year.Tencent and Alibaba's investment in DeepSeek will help diversify risks in the AI sector and deepen cooperation between the two parties at the model and product levels.

Deepseek official website launches deepseek-v4 interface and model introduction, including deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-pro.

According to The Information, Tencent and Alibaba are in negotiations to invest in DeepSeek, which has a valuation of over $20 billion.

Artificial intelligence company DeepSeek seeks to raise funds for the first time, with a valuation exceeding 10 billion dollars.

Last night and this morning, many netizens on social media posted that "DeepSeek is down," with issues occurring on both the web and the app. Users encountered a "server busy" message, unable to start new conversations, and some even experienced lost conversation content.Upon checking, it was found that the DeepSeek server has now been restored, and users can chat normally. According to its official website's product service status log, at 2:16 AM on the 30th, it showed that DeepSeek's web/app performance was abnormal, and the issue was under investigation; by 9:13 AM, monitoring indicated that a fix had been implemented and results were being monitored.

The Hurun Research Institute today released the "2026 Hurun Quality Life Report for High Net Worth Individuals in China," which states: "The commonly used information platforms are Xiaohongshu and Douyin, the commonly used AIs are DeepSeek and Doubao, and the most followed financial bloggers are Wu Xiaobo Channel, Xiao Lin Says, and Ren Zeping."61% of the surveyed high net worth individuals frequently use Xiaohongshu for information, which is 13 percentage points higher than Douyin. 32% of high net worth individuals frequently watch WeChat Video Accounts, and 24% frequently watch Bilibili. The enthusiasm for Eastmoney and Zhihu exceeds 20%, while Tonghuashun and Wind Info receive 14% enthusiasm.By age group, over 70% of U25 individuals use Xiaohongshu and Douyin as their most common information platforms, while U40 and those over 45 prefer to use Video Accounts. The audience for professional investment software like Eastmoney, Wind Info, and Tonghuashun is mainly U35 and U40.The top three financial bloggers that high net worth individuals most frequently follow are Wu Xiaobo Channel (38%), Xiao Lin Says (23%), and Ren Zeping (17%).The most commonly used AI assistants among the surveyed high net worth individuals are DeepSeek and Doubao. By age group, U25 most frequently uses ChatGPT, while U30, U35, U40, and U45 predominantly use DeepSeek, and respondents over 45 most frequently use Doubao.

According to the latest data from Private Equity排排网 cited by the 21st Century Business Herald, the average return of 56.55% for 2025 from Huansheng Quantitative, founded by Liang Wenfeng of DeepSeek, ranks second in the performance list of quantitative private equity in China with a management scale exceeding 10 billion, only behind Lingjun Investment, which tops the list with an average return of 73.51%. Currently, Huansheng Quantitative's management scale has exceeded 70 billion yuan. According to data from Private Equity排排网, Huansheng Quantitative's average return over the past three years is 85.15%, and the average return over the past five years is 114.35%.Some analysts believe that the substantial performance of Huansheng Quantitative provides ample R&D funding for DeepSeek, led by Liang Wenfeng. Huansheng Quantitative is one of the most well-known quantitative private equity giants in China, founded by Liang Wenfeng in 2008 while studying Information and Communication Engineering at Zhejiang University. It is a hedge fund with genes in mathematics, computation, research, and AI. In 2019, Huansheng Quantitative's management scale surpassed 10 billion yuan, and in 2021, it once broke through 100 billion yuan.Recently, it has been reported that DeepSeek will release its next-generation flagship AI model, DeepSeek V4, in February. This model possesses powerful programming capabilities and is expected to have a significant impact on the current AI competitive landscape.

MEXC officially launches the "AI Copy Trading Challenge," which will run from December 30 to January 13. Six major mainstream models, including DeepSeek, ChatGPT, and Grok, along with two mysterious traders, will perform real-time operations on popular perpetual contracts such as BTC, ETH, and SOL.This event supports both positive and negative copy trading, allowing users to either replicate strategies or perform reverse operations on specific models or traders. The competition has a total prize pool of 20,000 USDT, and users who copy trades for a full day can participate in sharing 18,000 USDT. Users who follow the leading models or traders have the chance to win an additional 2,000 USDT reward.

ChainCatcher message, as the cryptocurrency market continues to experience significant volatility, the performance of various models in the "AI Trading Competition" has collectively declined. Among the six major AI models, only DeepSeek and QWEN3 are currently in a profitable state, while the accounts of other AI models are all in a loss state. The current ranking by total account amount is as follows:DeepSeek (15,339.29 USDC, profit of 5,339.29 USDC)Qwen3 (12,378.47 USDC, profit of 2,378.47 USDC)Claude (99,329.63 USDC, loss of 670.37 USDC)Grok (6,917.10 USDC, loss of 3,082.90 USDC)Gemini (3,603.72 USDC, loss of 6,396.28 USDC)GPT5 (2,820.99 USDC, loss of 7,179.01 USDC)

ChainCatcher message, the DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp model is officially released and open-sourced today. The model introduces a sparse Attention architecture, which can effectively reduce computational resource consumption and improve model inference efficiency. Currently, the model has been officially launched on Huawei Cloud's Model as a Service platform (MaaS). For the DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp model, Huawei Cloud continues to use the large EP parallel deployment scheme, implementing a long-sequence affinity context parallel strategy based on the sparse Attention structure, while also considering model latency and throughput performance.

ChainCatcher news, Tesla has recently reached a partnership with Volcano Engine, which will provide large model services for Tesla in China, helping to upgrade the interactive experience of Tesla's smart cockpit.According to the recently updated "Tesla Vehicle Voice Assistant Usage Terms" on Tesla's official website in China, the newly launched Tesla Model Y will be equipped with the Doubao large model and the DeepSeek model, both of which are integrated through Volcano Engine.Among them, the Doubao large model will handle voice command functions, such as navigation settings, media playback control, and air conditioning temperature adjustment, while also providing a vehicle owner's manual query function; the DeepSeek model will offer AI voice chat services. (Beijing News)