:
[STARTUPS]■ STORY TIMELINE

DEEPSEEK PAUSES FUNDING ROUND AFTER VIRAL POSTS

DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round following viral comments attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng about US-China AI competition. The Chinese AI startup informed prospective investors of the halt.

5 SOURCESFIRST SEEN JUL 25, 02:49 PM► READ THE ARTICLE
Bloomberg Tech+0m

DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it’s suspending the deal for now, people fa…

Hacker News+8h 43m

Article URL: https://github.com/demo-zexuan/liang-wenfeng-investor-meeting-2026-7-22/blob/master/%E6%A2%81%E6%96%87%E9%9…

Techmeme+1d 15h

Tobi Knaup: As open-weight models become the next AI ecosystem's foundation, a US ban on Chinese models would risk cedin…

Bloomberg Tech+1d 20h

China warned it would take “all necessary measures” if the US moves to sanction Chinese artificial intelligence companie…

Bleeping Computer+6d 2h

A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cy…