# AI Sovereignty

The Tech Maverick’s Gambit: DeepSeek Breaks Its Silence to Lead China’s New AI Stack

DeepSeek, China’s most reclusive and efficient AI lab, is opening its first funding round at a $10 billion valuation to fuel its trillion-parameter V4 model. The shift marks a strategic pivot toward domestic hardware independence, as the company seeks to retain talent and move its entire stack onto Huawei’s Ascend chips.