People familiar with the matter: DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is still wary of external funding

Comparing news, DeepSeek has yet to raise external funding, partly to avoid pressure from investors to commercialize its products too quickly.

However, according to people familiar with internal discussions, since the company's AI chatbot application became famous overnight a few weeks ago, the company has considered external financing due to the need for more artificial intelligence chips and servers to handle rapid growth in usage and support model development. According to people familiar with the matter, in addition to discussing whether financing should be done, executives of DeepSeek and its hedge fund parent company Magic Square Quantification are also discussing whether they should shift their main focus from research to building a business that can generate significant revenue and ultimately achieve profit.

According to reports, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is still cautious about external funding.