{
  "id": 17544,
  "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/deepseek-8bn-round-unitree-robot-stake-humanoid-ai",
  "title": "DeepSeek made AI cheap. Now it is raising $8bn and buying robots",
  "summary": "DeepSeek spent early 2025 proving that a good AI model did not have to cost a fortune. This week it has been busy proving it can spend one. In a handful of days, the Chinese lab reopened a multi-billion-dollar fundraising. It took a stake in the country’s best-known robot maker. And it told customers it […] This story continues at The Next Web",
  "authors": "Cristian Dina",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": "deepseek",
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-06T17:49:51.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T05:10:34.355Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-next-web-ai",
  "source_name": "The Next Web AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://thenextweb.com/topic/artificial-intelligence",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17544",
  "original_url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/deepseek-8bn-round-unitree-robot-stake-humanoid-ai",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}