Filing: DeepSeek has invested ~$20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
DeepSeek invested $20.8M in Unitree’s IPO and formed a humanoid AI model development partnership, signaling deeper AI-robotics alignment.
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<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/deepseek-invests-208-million-unitrees-shanghai-ipo-2026-08-06/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260806/i23.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260806/p23#a260806p23" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Eduardo Baptista / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/deepseek-invests-208-million-unitrees-shanghai-ipo-2026-08-06/">Filing: DeepSeek has invested ~$20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines</a></b></span> — Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has invested 140.8 million yuan ($20.8 million) in robot maker Unitree (688836.SS) and agreed … </p>
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