Liang Wenfeng invests in the author of Swin Transformer! DeepSeek begins laying out embodied brains

What happened: DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round in Winverse AI, a robot AI startup founded by former Tencent scientist Hu Han, per Bloomberg. It follows DeepSeek's August investment in Unitree Robotics. Key numbers: Seed round in the tens of millions of dollars. Post-money valuation about $400 million, roughly 2.8 billion yuan. Why it matters: The deal would be one of DeepSeek's largest startup investments, extending its robotics push from robot bodies to embodied brain models. Meituan's Longzhu Capital also committed.

DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round in Winverse AI, a robot AI startup founded by former Tencent scientist Hu Han, per Bloomberg. It follows DeepSeek's August investment in Unitree Robotics.

The deal would be one of DeepSeek's largest startup investments, extending its robotics push from robot bodies to embodied brain models. Meituan's Longzhu Capital also committed.