DeepSeek reportedly leads seed round for robotics startup Winverse AI at $400M valuation

Multiple posts on X report that DeepSeek is leading a seed funding round for Winverse AI, a Hangzhou-based robotics startup founded by former Tencent scientist Hu Han. The posts, citing Bloomberg, say the round is in the tens of millions of dollars and values the company at approximately $400 million post-money. One post, by user alacheng, describes the investment as a rumor and adds that Meituan's Long-Z capital is participating. Another post, by user fourweekmba, states the deal is not final and that Meituan's Long-Z is also in. A third post, by user arnaudmercier, headlines the round as $400 million, though the exact figure varies across reports. The posts identify Hu Han as a former Tencent scientist with a PhD from Tsinghua University, and alacheng's post adds that he previously worked at Microsoft Research Asia and Baidu, and is an author of the Swin Transformer and SimMIM papers. The same post claims this is DeepSeek's second investment in the embodied AI field after Unitree, but that detail is not independently confirmed. The reports are attributed to Bloomberg via Techmeme quotes, and no independent verification is provided in the supplied posts.