ByteDance's AI Cloud Ascends: A New Challenger in China's Tech Arena
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“Deep discounts, vast data and bespoke AI agents fuel new challenge in China's multibillion-dollar enterprise market”
“Deep discounts, vast data and bespoke AI agents fuel new challenge in China's multibillion-dollar enterprise market”
“API call requests increased from approximately 35 billion in March of last year when Gemini 2.5 was released, to approximately 85 billion in August, more than doubling.”
“Evercore ISI senior analyst Mark Mahaney said in a report on Monday that if all goes well, OpenAI is expected to achieve around $25 billion in annual advertising revenue by 2030.”
“SK Hynix employees are receiving an average of approximately $90,000 USD (640,000 RMB) in performance bonuses!”
“For 2026, the company will prioritize "practical adoption," particularly in health, science and enterprise, she said.”
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“NEC will leverage its 43,000 patents and proprietary AI technology to automate patent document creation and streamline prior art searches.”
“Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar disclosed in a blog post that its annualized recurring revenue topped $20 billion last year.”
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“I was surprised by how usable TQ1_0 turned out to be. In most chat or image‑analysis scenarios it actually feels better than the Qwen3‑VL 30 B model quantised to Q8.”
“Ben Horowitz calls it “one of the best funds.””
“The deal is being led by Singapore’s GIC and U.S. investor Coatue, each contributing roughly $1.5 billion, as part of a planned raise of $25 billion or more at a staggering $350 billion valuation.”
“Anthropic is seeking a new round of significant funding, targeting a valuation of $350 billion.”
“The post OpenAI backer Sequoia Capital in talks to join Anthropic’s proposed $25B mega round appeared on SiliconANGLE.”
“We launched ChatGPT as a research preview to understand what would happen if we put frontier intelligence directly in people's hands.”
“Musk's lawyer stated, "Without Musk, there would be no OpenAI. He provided not just the money, but the key capabilities needed to build a scalable AI institution."”
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“By 2026, over 80% of companies are predicted to deploy generative AI applications.”
“Now those billion dollar models need Reddit to sound credible.”
“Zhipu's CEO, Zhang Peng, stated the company started 'with technology, team, customers, and market' from day one.”
“The article states: "$134 billion, with more to come."”
“Musk claimed in the filing that he's entitled to a portion of OpenAI's recent valuation at $500 billion, after contributing $38 million in "seed funding" during the AI company's startup years.”
“Elon Musk is seeking up to $134 billion in compensation from OpenAI and Microsoft.”
“The post Database maker ClickHouse raises $400M, acquires AI observability startup Langfuse appeared on SiliconANGLE.”
“The pace of big funding rounds continued to hold up at brisk levels this past week...”
“Sam Altman confirms faster Codex is coming, following OpenAI’s recent multi billion dollar partnership with Cerebras.”
“OpenAI expects to generate "low billions" of dollars from advertising in 2026, FT reported, and more in subsequent years.”
“OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US.”
“TSMC's report revealed optimistic business prospects and record-breaking capital expenditure plans for this year, injecting substantial optimism into the market.”
“DeepRoute.ai is expanding its technology beyond automotive applications, with the potential market size for spatial-temporal intelligence solutions expected to reach 270.2 billion yuan by 2035.”
“The funding is being used to accelerate Harmonic’s momentum in developing Aristotle, which the company claims is the world’s […]”
“Higgsfield says it's on a $200 million annual revenue run rate.”
“I am stunned at how intelligent it is for a 30b model.”
“Merge Labs, a company co-founded by AI billionaire Sam Altman that is building devices to connect human brains to computers, raised $252 million.”
“The UK's communications regulator will continue its investigation into X platform's alleged creation of fabricated images.”
“AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $80 million in new funding, valuing the company at over $1.3 billion...”
“Boston-based Tulip announced today it has raised $120 million in a Series D funding round led by Mitsubishi Electric, at a valuation of $1.3 billion.”
“The funding comes just seven months […]”
“A group of investors have filed a class action lawsuit against Oracle, contending that it made misleading statements during its initial $18 billion bond drive, resulting in potential losses of $1.3 billion.”
“Berlin-based Parloa, which develops AI customer service agents for Booking.com and others, raised $350M at a $3B valuation, taking its total raised to $560M+”
“AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems.”
“OpenAI will use Cerebras’ chips to power its ChatGPT.”
“"Cerebras adds a dedicated low-latency inference solution to our platform," Sachin Katti, who works on compute infrastructure at OpenAI, wrote in the blog.”
“The collaboration will help OpenAI models deliver faster response times for more difficult or time consuming tasks, the companies said.”
“As companies deploy AI-powered chatbots, agents, and copilots across their operations, they’re facing a new risk: how do you let employees and AI agents use powerful AI tools without accidentally leaking sensitive data, violating compliance rules, or opening the door to […]”
“Skild AI, a robotics company building an “omni-bodied” brain to operate any robot for any task, announced Wednesday that it has raised $1.4 billion, tripling its valuation to over $14 billion.”
“Deepgram is raising its Series C round at a $1.3 billion valuation.”
“French defense tech company Harmattan AI is now valued at $1.4 billion after raising a $200 million Series B round led by Dassault Aviation...”
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