DeepSeek to lead seed round in $400mn robot AI start-up, Bloomberg reports

DeepSeek has agreed to lead the first funding round for Winverse AI, a start-up building AI for robots, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

The seed round is worth tens of millions of dollars and would value Winverse at about $400mn after the investment. Meituan’s investment arm, Long-Z, has also committed, the people said.

The deal is not final, and the valuation and investors could change, they added.

A Tencent scientist goes solo

Winverse was founded this year by Hu Han, who led Tencent’s vision-language and robotics AI teams. He has a PhD from Tsinghua University and has worked at Microsoft Research Asia and Baidu.

He left Tencent as it reshuffled its AI research team to catch up with rivals such as DeepSeek and Moonshot.

From models to machines

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