DeepSeek got all the headlines on this one. The strategic investor list is more interesting than that. DeepSeek’s the name everyone’s citing: 141 million yuan, three-year lock-up. Tencent’s in too. But so are China National Petroleum Corp, China Southern Power Grid, China Telecom, and the fund sitting on China’s $455 billion pension reserve. These investors run pipelines, power grids and phone networks, plus the fund that can’t afford to gamble with retirement money. They are not betting on Unitree selling more robot dogs and dancing/kung-fu robots to hobbyists. Whoever priced this deal treats a humanoid robot maker as infrastructure, not a consumer electronics company. What “infrastructure” ends up meaning once the hardware actually ships is the part more people should talk about. submitted by /u/the-uncanny-squad
Originally posted by u/the-uncanny-squad on r/ArtificialInteligence