DeepSeek reported near close of at least RMB 80B funding round

DeepSeek is close to completing a funding round of at least RMB 80 billion, Bloomberg reports, above its original target of about RMB 50 billion, with Tencent and CATL among the largest investors. On the same day, a subscription review of Anthropic and OpenAI found Opus 5.5 delivered roughly 5x the API-equivalent value of GPT 6.1 Sol.