Insiders: CATL plans to invest in DeepSeek.

Two informed sources revealed that CATL, intends to participate in the financing of domestic artificial intelligence company DeepSeek. At the time of this investment landing, CATL is actively expanding its business by selling power equipment to artificial intelligence data centers. The sources said that the target fundraising scale of DeepSeek's first round of financing is about 50 billion RMB, and the fundraising settlement may be completed as early as next month. Earlier reports suggested that after this round of capital increase, DeepSeek's valuation may exceed 350 billion RMB. It is said that JD.com and NetEase are also in talks to invest, but the investment matters have not been finalized. Negotiations are still ongoing, and details such as the investment amount and final investors may still change.