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A developer spent three weeks comparing AI API prices and found that the cheapest viable models are Apache 2.0 and MIT licensed models from China, not the well-known proprietary names. The analysis revealed a huge price …
Amazon returned to the bond market with a $25bn+ debt sale, its largest of the year, to fund AI infrastructure including data centers and custom Trainium chips. The offering, split across eight tranches with maturities u…
Cursor field CTO David Pan declared the end of Jeff Bezos' 'two-pizza rule' for team sizes, arguing that in the AI era teams have become so small that two pizzas are too much. Pan's comments on X sparked debate over new …
French startup ZML announced a partnership with Scaleway, VSORA, and the Île-de-France region at VivaTech to build a European AI stack independent of Nvidia. ZML's open-source inference software compiles AI models to run…
French startup ZML released ZML/LLMD v2, a free open-source inference server that runs AI models across any hardware platform without code changes, aiming to break NVIDIA's CUDA lock-in. Endorsed by Yann LeCun, the softw…
Techstars and Emirates NBD announced a strategic partnership on July 6th to accelerate enterprise-grade AI and fintech solutions across the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkiye. The 'Acceleration-to-Enterprise' model g…
French AI startup ZML released a free inference server, ZML/LLMD, that enables open-source large language models to run at peak performance across multiple chip types including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal, and I…
Circeus has acquired Encodian to strengthen its position in AI-powered document automation, targeting enterprise customers seeking to streamline document generation, data extraction, and workflow management.
Chinese AI startup Deepseek is developing its own AI chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei, boosting Hong Kong stocks. The Hang Seng Index rose nearly 3% and the Hang Seng Tech Index surged up to 4.8%, with Aliba…
SambaNova announced a $1 billion Series F first close on July 8, 2026, at an $11 billion post-money valuation, led by General Atlantic with participation from Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price, and Capital Group. The AI-i…
SambaNova reached an $11 billion valuation after a funding round led by General Atlantic, highlighting investor appetite for AI chip startups challenging Nvidia's dominance.
Temasek Holdings plans to triple its AI investments from $25 billion to $75 billion by 2030, joining funding rounds for Anthropic, Waymo, and Isomorphic Labs as part of a broader restructuring to integrate AI across its …
SambaNova completed a $1 billion funding round at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, and signed JPMorganChase as a customer for its AI inference systems. The company plans to use the funds to scale its bus…
SambaNova is closing in on a funding round of up to $1 billion at a valuation near $10 billion, roughly five times its valuation from four months ago. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed the talks, highlighting surging invest…
Naver Cloud and Mistral AI signed a comprehensive partnership to jointly pursue the manufacturing AI market, aiming to offer sovereign AI solutions to manufacturers in Europe and Asia. The partnership leverages their sha…
Microsoft has begun routing a significant share of Copilot prompts in Excel and Outlook to its own MAI models, reducing reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic to cut inference costs. The move, effective July 7, 2026, shifts ro…
Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek added $7.7 billion in direct China investments in fiscal 2025, pushing its total portfolio to a record $324 billion. The fund is tripling down on AI, targeting $75 billion in AI in…
SK Hynix shares plunged 5.7% on Wednesday as a broad AI chip selloff overshadowed the company's upcoming Nasdaq debut, with South Korea's Kospi index falling 5.4% amid losses in Samsung Electronics and renewed US-Iran te…
In June 2026, 16 AI startups achieved unicorn status, signaling a shift in venture capital towards applied AI and infrastructure rather than foundational models.
AI chip maker SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation in a Series F round led by General Atlantic, five months after its Series E. The company also secured JPMorganChase as an inference-infrastruc…