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DeepSeek plans a 160,000-chip Huawei Ascend 950DT data center in Inner Mongolia — the largest known Ascend cluster ever, and the boldest move yet by a Chinese AI lab to replace NVIDIA hardware.
Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi chatbot, has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO targeting $3-5 billion at a $50 billion valuation — the third Chinese AI company to list, following Zhipu and MiniMax.
ByteDance is closing in on a $29.6 billion syndicated loan — the largest offshore dollar borrowing by a Chinese private enterprise — as banks oversubscribed the deal by nearly 50%. The funds will fuel up to $70 billion in 2026 AI capex.
Anthropic is closing in on a $15 billion credit facility with Wall Street banks, clearing the way for what could be the largest IPO in history as early as October.
Saudi Arabia's PIF launched humain-m3, a 428B-parameter Arabic AI model built on Chinese open-source MiniMax M3. It beats GPT-5.6 SOL and Opus 5 on Arabic benchmarks — and the weights will be open-sourced next month.
Cursor, Harvey, and Thomson Reuters are quietly replacing American closed-source APIs with Chinese open-source models. The regulatory kill-switch, commercial dependency, and sheer model quality are driving the biggest supply chain shift in AI.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra: 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, 100% on ExploitBench, 47% faster computer tasks, and real math breakthroughs. But coding benchmarks are tied with Anthropic, and third-party rankings still favor Fable 5.1.
NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — its largest deal ever. The 'GitHub of AI' now belongs to the world's biggest AI chip company. What does it mean for open source?