$400 Million Valuation! DeepSeek Makes a Move into the Humanoid Robot AI Race

$400 Million Valuation! DeepSeek Makes a Move into the Humanoid Robot AI Race

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AI research institution DeepSeek plans to lead a tens-of-millions-of-dollars seed round in the robotics AI startup Winverse AI, at a post-money valuation of approximately $400 million.

It is reported that Winverse AI was founded in 2026 by Hu Han, former Chief Scientist at Tencent Holdings and head of the vision-language and embodied foundation models team, and this round of financing has also received funding commitments from institutions including Long-Z Investments under Meituan. The deal's funds come from DeepSeek's new financing round raising over $12 billion.

If the deal is successfully completed, it will help this Chinese AI leader accelerate its deep push into embodied intelligence and real-world application scenarios, providing underlying technical support for the commercialization of fields such as humanoid robots.

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