A lab that gives its best models away for free is about to be worth $81B. DeepSeek is closing ~$7.4B at a $74B pre-money valuation. CATL and Monolith are in. An IPO filing could land by year-end, with a 2027 Shanghai STAR Market debut. Open weights just became an IPO-grade business model — and if you build on open models, your supply chain got a lot more durable. More AI signal daily at www.contentbuffer.com Would you ship production on an open-weight model today, or still not? #AI #DeepSeek #OpenSource #LLM #TechNews