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TRUE, BUT

DeepSeek is now a '$1B ARR' company, the newsletters say. The same reporting puts its revenue for the first seven months of this year at about $70.7 million. Both can be true. Only one of them is money that came in.

Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek CEO (to investors, per The Information), amplified by TLDR AI. Recorded 26 September 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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