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AI Reddit — 2026-06-22#
The Buzz#
The defining story today is DeepSeek’s massive $7.4 billion Series A, pushing its valuation to $60 billion, with founder Liang Wenfeng dropping $3 billion of his own money to keep an iron grip on management and enforce strict no-poaching rules. Beyond the boardroom, the real technical buzz is happening around the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, where developers are desperately trying to tame the fragmentation of agent tools with universal connectors and gateway routers.