Capital Floods Into Chinese Labs and GPU Clouds as DeepSeek Nears $74B Valuation

DeepSeek is reportedly raising over $12B at a ~$74B valuation, Moonshot sits at $50B, and GPU cloud Lambda is raising $4B — a signal of where infrastructure money is concentrating.

The funding environment for AI infrastructure and Chinese frontier labs is running hot. According to @ivke2006, DeepSeek is raising upward of $12 billion at a valuation near $74 billion, with fellow Chinese lab Moonshot valued at $50 billion. On the infrastructure side, GPU cloud provider Lambda is reportedly raising $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation.

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