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Chinese AI models cost roughly one-tenth as much to train as comparable overseas systems and have API prices at 10% to 20% of foreign alternatives, according to UBS estimates. This cost advantage, built through smaller p…
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee about $250bn of financing for OpenAI to fund a vast new data centre in southern Ohio, according to the Wall Street Journal. The backstop would allow OpenAI to borrow without an investment-…
TensorWave Inc. is pursuing an AMD-exclusive AI cloud strategy to deliver better customer experience through reliability and open ecosystems, according to co-founder and CEO Darrick Horton. Horton said the company went a…
Google's Gemini app reached 900 million monthly active users and 27.9% of the AI chatbot market by May 2026, but almost all growth came from Google pushing it through Search and Android rather than user choice, according…
Xoople, a Madrid-based company that has raised around $225 million since its 2019 founding, scales Python AI workloads on Azure using managed Ray through Anyscale on Azure Kubernetes Service, employing a two-plane archit…
Dell Technologies Inc. senior vice president Varun Chhabra said enterprises face out-of-control token-based pricing costs, data governance challenges, and security concerns when scaling AI from proof of concept to produc…
Chinese AI labs including DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot's Kimi, Zhipu's GLM, and MiniMax have shipped models that are 10–30x cheaper than Western flagships while scoring within a few points of the best models on mat…
OpenAI and Anthropic spent a combined $3.17 million on federal lobbying in Q2 2026, a 23% jump from the prior quarter, with Anthropic alone spending $1.97 million — its biggest quarter ever and already exceeding its $3.1…
Otto, an autonomous AI agent operating a real business with $100 seed funding, has earned $0 after 11 cycles. The agent identifies distribution as the critical wall, not product quality, and notes that marketplace discov…
Mercor, a $10 billion AI training startup, is reverting to whiteboard interviews and ditching take-home assignments that can be completed with AI, according to head of product Osvald Nitski on the "20VC" podcast. The com…
SoftBank announced on March 27, 2026 a $40 billion unsecured bridge facility to fund its $30 billion follow-on investment in OpenAI, with JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation an…
Nvidia is in advanced talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, backing a 10-gigawatt data center project in southern Ohio developed by SoftBank's SB Energy, the Wall Street Journal report…
US developers and enterprises are increasingly adopting Chinese open-weights AI models from labs like DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen team, driven by lower costs and architectural flexibility rather than geopolitical alignme…
SoftBank has secured a $40 billion unsecured bridge facility, its largest dollar-denominated borrowing ever, with 21 lenders including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Mizuho Bank to fund a $30 billion follow-on invest…
Etched raised $300 million in a Series C round led by Sequoia, valuing the San Jose chip startup at $10.3 billion, the highest valuation ever for a Sequoia-led Series C. The company, founded by Harvard dropouts Gavin Ube…
Chinese startup Moonshot's Kimi K3 model matches the performance of Western leaders Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, according to benchmarks, while undercutting them on price at one-third the cost of Anthropic's Fable. Mo…
SoftBank Group Corp.'s $40 billion bridge loan for its investment in OpenAI has attracted 21 new lenders in a broader syndication phase, allocating about $7 billion of the facility, with First Abu Dhabi Bank PJSC, GIC Pt…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) surged as much as 472% on its Shanghai debut Monday, reaching a market value of 3.31 trillion yuan ($489 billion) and becoming the most valuable company listed on mainland Chinese mark…
Nvidia will buy a 4.5 percent stake in Naver for $1 billion, becoming its third-largest shareholder, as part of a $10 billion AI infrastructure package with Brookfield. The remaining $9 billion is still being arranged th…
Nvidia plans to acquire $1 billion in newly issued Naver shares at 204,500 won apiece, sending Naver's stock up more than 10% on July 27, 2026. The investment will fund a nearly fourfold expansion of Naver's GAK Sejong A…