DeepSeek plans to lead first funding round for Winverse AI

DeepSeek plans to lead the first funding round for Winverse AI, a newly formed startup building the software that helps robots see, understand instructions, and act in the physical world. The round would bring in tens of millions of dollars and value the company at about $400 million after the investment, according to people familiar with the talks; the deal is not final and its terms could still change. Winverse was founded by Hu Han, who previously led Tencent teams working on AI that connects vision, language, and physical action. For DeepSeek, best known for language models, the proposed investment would extend its ambitions from software that works on screens to the harder task of giving machines useful real-world judgment.