Funding
Mercor raises $750M at $20B valuation to take AI agent evaluation to enterprises (opens siliconangle.com)
Mercor supplies human experts to train and evaluate AI models, drawing on a network of more than 5 million domain experts.
FundingReported
Sources: DeepSeek raised ~$15B in its latest fundraising round, one of China's largest ever, with CATL and Tencent among the biggest contributors
Context: Bloomberg reports, citing sources, that DeepSeek raised about 100 billion yuan; CATL and Tencent were among the biggest contributors.
From Bloomberg: Sources: DeepSeek raised ~$15B in its latest fundraising round, one of China's largest ever, with CATL and Tencent among the biggest contributors — The Chinese AI pioneer DeepSeek has raised about 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) in its latest fundraising round, one of the country's largest ever …
DeepSeek · ~$15B · with CATL, TencentAs stated by Bloomberg.
- Source
- Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
- Published
- First seen here
- Edition
- Thursday, October 22, 2026, ranked 3
- Status
- A publication reported this; the company may not have confirmed it.
- Why it’s here
- Reported as one of China's largest-ever private rounds, for a lab that competes with US frontier labs.
- Topics
- AI, Venture capital
