Overview
- A stock-exchange filing reported on Aug. 6 shows DeepSeek bought 933,399 Unitree shares for 140.8 million yuan, equal to 2.31% of the strategic placement in Unitree’s Shanghai listing.
- The filing records a formal joint-development deal in which DeepSeek and Unitree will build AI models for humanoid robots and give each other procurement preference for model services and robot purchases.
- Unitree’s IPO process is still in progress with public reports citing different fundraising targets that range from about 4.2 billion yuan to 6.1 billion yuan and a projected post-listing valuation in the tens of billions of yuan.
- The partnership targets a core technical gap: DeepSeek’s strengths are in language and reasoning models while Unitree can supply the physical robots and multimodal demonstration data that training embodied-AI systems require.
- Separate pre-market activity has created an unofficial UNITREE crypto token that claims association with the company, but no official link has been disclosed and the token remains unverified.