DeepSeek has agreed to lead a multi-million dollar seed funding round for Winverse AI, a startup founded by former Tencent AI scientist Hu Han, valuing the months-old company at approximately $400 million, Bloomberg reported. Meituan's Longzhu Capital and other institutions have also committed to investing. This will be one of DeepSeek's largest investments in an external startup to date, further expanding its presence in humanoid robotics and embodied AI. DeepSeek's latest funding round was close to 80 billion yuan, with some of the funds expected to be used for joint development with external startups.