DeepSeek reportedly to lead seed round for robotics startup Winverse AI

A post by fourweekmba, citing Bloomberg, reports that DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round of tens of millions of dollars for Winverse AI, a months-old Hangzhou robotics startup founded by former Tencent scientist Hu Han, at about $400 million post-money. The post says Meituan's Long-Z is also in, and that the deal is not final. The post adds that China's leading open-weight lab is putting raise proceeds into embodied AI, not only more training runs, and comments that frontier labs are becoming funds for the robots that will run their models. Another post by Zekunnnnn, quoting a business outlet, reports that DeepSeek aims to lead the first round of investment for a months-old startup building AI for robots, deploying capital from its own $12 billion-plus financing. That post also notes DeepSeek has taken a stake in Unitree, and asks whether DeepSeek is preparing to scale its models to robotics. Both posts are reports of an announcement, not an official confirmation from DeepSeek or Winverse AI.