DeepSeek Buys Into Unitree’s Shanghai IPO in Humanoid AI Pact

DeepSeek invested about $20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO, acquiring 2.31% of the shares and partnering to develop AI models for humanoid robots. The collaboration aims to integrate DeepSeek's AI with Unitree's robotics expertise to improve robot autonomy in complex environments. Unitree's IPO raised roughly $9 billion, marking it as China's first mainland-listed humanoid robot maker.