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DeepSeek plans to lead seed round in robotics AI startup Winverse AI at roughly $400 million valuation
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According to people familiar with the matter who spoke to Bloomberg and other media outlets, DeepSeek plans to lead the seed round of Winverse AI, a robotics AI startup founded only a few months ago. The round is in the tens of millions of dollars, with a post-money valuation of about $400 million (about 2.7 billion yuan). Meituan's Long-Z Investments has committed to participating. The funds will come from a portion of the more than $12 billion in financing DeepSeek has raised. Winverse AI was founded by a former Tencent scientist and is headquartered in Hangzhou. It has not yet made a public debut and does not yet have a complete product on the market. The deal has not yet completed all of its procedures, and details such as the valuation and the list of investors may still change.
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- DeepSeek plans to lead investment in embodied AI company Winverse AI, forming a body-and-brain division of labor with Unitree
According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek plans to lead the seed round of Winverse AI, a robotics AI company founded only a few months ago, with funding in the tens of millions of dollars and a post-money valuation of about $400 million; Longzhu Capital, under Meituan, is participating.
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- Report: Liang Wenfeng in Talks with Robotics Companies; Can General-Purpose Models Replace Specialized Embodied Models?
Reports say DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng is in contact with several embodied AI startups and participated in Unitree Technology's IPO strategic placement (contributing about 141 million yuan), and plans to lead a funding round for Winverse AI. The article analyzes a new approach in which general-purpose large models drive agents to call robot tools: in RoboCurve tests, GPT-6 Astra succeeded 19 out of 20 times in a block-into-bowl task, but this approach still faces real-time issues such as API call costs and several-second response latency.
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- DeepSeek plans to lead seed round in robotics AI company Winverse AI at a valuation of about 2.7 billion yuan
Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round of tens of millions of dollars in Winverse AI, a robotics AI company founded only a few months ago, at a post-money valuation of about $400 million (about 2.7 billion yuan). Meituan Longzhu Capital has committed to participate, and the deal has not yet completed all procedures.
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- Wang Xingxing raises embodied intelligence forecast; Liang Wenfeng reassesses robotics strategy
The article analyzes how Wang Xingxing, at the China International Industry Fair, shortened his most optimistic estimate for the tipping point of embodied intelligence from two to three years to one to two years, and admitted he had not believed in AI enough. Reports from Phoenix News Technology and others say Liang Wenfeng has been meeting intensively with embodied intelligence entrepreneurs; DeepSeek has already made a strategic investment in Unitree and plans to lead a funding round for Winverse AI, raising tens of millions of dollars at a post-money valuation of about 400 million dollars.
OFweek Robotics ·
- DeepSeek to lead investment in Winverse AI, a robotics AI startup founded by former Tencent scientist, at about $400 million valuation
DeepSeek plans to lead the seed round of Winverse AI, a robotics AI startup founded only months ago by a former Tencent scientist that has not yet made a public debut, using part of the proceeds from DeepSeek's more than $12 billion funding. People familiar with the matter said the round is in the tens of millions of dollars and has also received commitments from investors including Meituan's Long-Z Investments, with a post-money valuation of about $400 million. The deal has not been finalized, and details such as the valuation and investor participation may still change (source: Sina Finance).
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