DeepSeek Invests 141 Million Yuan to Back Unitree's IPO, Marking Strategic Alliance of Hangzhou's Twin Tech Giants

On August 6, Unitree Technology announced the results of the strategic placement for its initial public offering on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Nine investors participated in the strategic placement, among them Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., the parent company of DeepSeek. DeepSeek was allocated 933,390 shares, representing 2.31% of the total offering, at an issuance price of 150.80 yuan per share, totaling approximately 141 million yuan. The announcement states that DeepSeek is classified as a 'large enterprise with strategic cooperation or long-term cooperation vision with the issuer', indicating that the collaboration targets long-term industry goals, such as making large models the 'brain' of robots and enabling robots to become the 'body' for AI to interact with the real world. The strategic placement includes a 36-month lock-up period for DeepSeek's shares, longer than the typical 12-month period for most industrial strategic investors. Unitree's announcement outlines three main purposes for introducing leading large model companies: collaborative research and development for general artificial intelligence, deep cooperation in high-performance general-purpose robots, and deep collaboration in AI large models, including model training services and technical support for model architecture, intelligent computing cluster construction, and data center operations. The IPO disclosure also revealed DeepSeek's equity structure: Liang Wenfeng directly holds 31.0078% of DeepSeek, and through two partnerships controls an additional 68.7129%, totaling 99.7207% of voting rights, making him the actual controller. Both companies are part of the 'Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou', and this strategic cooperation links their previously separate development paths.