Source: Insider Insiders: CATL is planning to participate in DeepSeek's fundraising, while JD.com and Netease are also in discussions.

BlockBeats News, May 23. Two insiders revealed that CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited) is planning to participate in the domestic artificial intelligence company DeepSeek's financing round. JD.com and Netease are also reportedly in talks to invest, but the final investors and amount may still be adjusted.

In recent years, CATL has been accelerating its layout in the AI data center infrastructure business. In addition to power batteries, it also provides backup power batteries and energy storage systems to data centers. Earlier this month, a CATL affiliate invested $942 million in Wanguo Data and also invested in Zhongheng Electric, a data center power supply system manufacturer.

DeepSeek has already built its own data center in Inner Mongolia and is currently hiring data center operation and maintenance personnel in the region. Due to the rapid growth in AI computing power demand, data centers have seen a synchronous increase in energy storage and stable power supply requirements. CATL is using this opportunity to further enter the AI infrastructure field.

Previously, BlockBeats' DApp Daily analysis pointed out that DeepSeek is currently in the final stage of a financing round of up to 70 billion yuan (approximately $10 billion), surpassing the previously rumored scale of 50 billion yuan (approximately $7.35 billion) on May 8. The current round of financing is progressing at a pre-investment valuation of around $45 billion, which will push the post-investment valuation to $55 billion.