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Tue, Oct 13
DeepSeek reportedly leads the seed round of robot AI startup Winverse AI, valuing the months-old company at about $400 million
With large rounds in hand, model companies are starting to spend like big tech: training their own models while using investments to hold a position in the next field.
Unitree's Wang Xingxing says his biggest mistake was not believing in AI enough and expects embodied AI's tipping point in as little as one to two years
When a hardware-first robot founder publicly raises his expectations for AI, the industry's view of its bottleneck is moving from the body to when the brain will be good enough.
Sat, Sep 12
Unitree Reportedly Falls Below 500 Yuan as Robot Financing Retreat Tests Commercial Progress
Robot capital is moving from chasing projects to checking orders, clearing space for companies that can manufacture, deliver and earn profits.
Sun, Aug 30
Robot foundation model company Generalist adds $200 million at a $3 billion valuation
Up 50% in two months with no customer revenue, this money buys one assumption about industry structure: the robot brain lives apart from the body.
Fri, Aug 21
Unitree Robotics Falls 18.7% on Second Trading Day, Market Cap Breaks Below 300 Billion Yuan
What evaporated 160 billion in two days was not fundamentals — it was the imagination packed into that 629% opening price on day one.
Sat, Aug 8
OpenAI Acknowledges New Model Astra May Reach 'Critical' Cybersecurity Level, Delays Release and Pauses Some Internal Activities
For the first time, a lab has held back a release because its own model was too good at attacking.
Fri, Aug 7
Unitree Robotics Reveals Strategic-Placement Roster; DeepSeek Allocated About 141 Million Yuan
A model company is paying for robot-body equity — upstream and downstream in embodied AI are crossing into each other's turf.
Tue, Aug 4
Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek V4-Flash Costs 3 Cents per Task
Per-million-token pricing is losing its relevance; what counts is the total bill for completing a task.