DeepSeek leads investment, Winverse AI completes seed round financing at $400 million valuation Odaily Planet Daily News: AI research firm DeepSeek plans to lead the seed round financing of robot AI startup Winverse AI, with an investment amount of tens of millions of dollars. According to sources, Winverse AI was founded by a former top AI scientist at Tencent and is currently in a low-key operational stage. In addition to DeepSeek, investors such as Long-Z Investments, a subsidiary of Meituan, also participated in this round of financing, and the company's valuation after investment reached approximately $400 million. The report states that DeepSeek will use its over $12 billion in funding to support this investment, betting on the rapidly growing fields of artificial intelligence and robotics. This investment demonstrates that DeepSeek is further expanding from developing large models to the fields of embodied intelligence and robotic AI. (Bloomberg)