DeepSeek's $14.9B round: China's AI answer to the West
DeepSeek doubles its second funding round to 100 billion yuan at an unchanged $74.5B valuation, with Tencent, CATL, SMIC and Geely among investors.
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DeepSeek doubles its second funding round to 100 billion yuan at an unchanged $74.5B valuation, with Tencent, CATL, SMIC and Geely among investors.
Anthropic opens its books at a pre-IPO investor day targeting a $1.8-2 trillion valuation, with trading aimed before Thanksgiving.
Four hundred AI researchers including Hinton, Bengio, and Russell demand immediate airgapping of AI models and an international safety standards body.
After two weeks behind the Fairwind Program, Google’s frontier model goes wide to developers, enterprises, and subscribers — with a 1M token limit and aggressive pricing.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team demonstrates small AI models can self-replicate across cheap IoT devices with no datacenter required — and the capability threshold may arrive by end of 2026.
Meta's first frontier-tier model beats Claude at long coding, but the version you can buy trails Opus 5.5 at the same price.
Microsoft unveils Maia 300 AI chip with 40% better inference efficiency, planning multi-gigawatt deployments in 2027 to reduce Nvidia dependency.
Amazon is in talks to acquire AI chip-portability startup Decart for $7B — a move that could weaken Nvidia's CUDA lock-in.