DeepSeek Agrees to Lead Seed Round for Winverse AI at $400mn, Bloomberg Says
Summary
DeepSeek has agreed to lead the seed round for Winverse AI, a robot AI start-up founded by former Tencent scientist Hu Han, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar. The round would value Winverse at about $400mn, with Meituan's Long-Z also committed. The deal is not final.
Key Points
- Hu Han founded Winverse AI this year after leading Tencent's vision-language and robotics AI teams.
- The seed round is worth tens of millions of dollars, according to Bloomberg's sources.
- DeepSeek holds a stake in humanoid robot maker Unitree and is raising at least $12bn.