This Sunday, May 17th, DeepSeek, an AI lab founded by hedge-fund billionaire Liang Wenfeng, is finalizing a major funding round led by China's National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, pushing its valuation to $50 billion. Both Tech Times and Startup Fortune report this comes after DeepSeek’s April release of V4 models, designed to drastically cut memory and compute costs for AI with a one-million-token context window. This large context window, as Startup Fortune highlights, me