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Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (TMTPost · Oct 15, 2026)

DeepSeek Leads Winverse AI Seed Round at ~$400M Valuation

KEY FACTS

  • DeepSeek has agreed to lead Winverse AI's seed round, which totals tens of millions of dollars and values the company at about $400 million post-money.
  • Winverse founder Hu Han is the corresponding author of the Swin Transformer paper and won the ICCV 2021 Marr Prize.
  • Hu Han left Tencent Hunyuan in July of this year; he previously oversaw multimodal understanding and took part in world model research.
  • DeepSeek participated in Unitree Robotics' strategic placement, receiving 933,400 shares for 141 million yuan, with a 36-month lock-up period.
  • The two sides signed a strategic cooperation memorandum agreeing to give each other priority in purchasing robotics and large-model products.

KEY DATA

tens of millions of dollarsWinverse seed round size
about $400 millionWinverse post-money valuation
933,400 sharesDeepSeek's allotted Unitree shares
141 million yuanDeepSeek strategic placement amount

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

DeepSeek is using investment to stake out a position in embodied intelligence, handing hardware to Unitree and brain exploration to an outside squad while it focuses on models and compute. This reflects how the talent war among big tech firms has escalated from sending offers to signing investment agreements, and it also signals that the embodied intelligence ecosystem is being woven together faster by capital.

Source: TMTPost report

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