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Ollama, the leading platform for accessing open AI models, announced it has raised $88 million from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and other investors. Founded by Docker veterans, Ollama now serves 8.9 million develope…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that over 400 former Apple employees now work at the AI company and that OpenAI engaged in trade secret theft, according to a TechCrunch report. The lawsuit could threat…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 open-source model has become the first to match frontier proprietary models like Claude 5 and GPT 5.6 on independent benchmarks, achieving frontier-level performance and slashing inference costs by …
Meta is in talks to lease computing power worth up to $10 billion to Anthropic, a deal that would allow Anthropic to scale its AI model training without massive upfront capital expenditure. The arrangement shifts cloud c…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI plans to list in Hong Kong within six months after its Kimi K3 model, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, outperformed rivals except Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6.…
Apple briefly overtook Nvidia on July 17, 2026, becoming the world's most valuable company for the first time in more than a year, with Nvidia at about $4.908 trillion and Apple at about $4.902 trillion after Nvidia reco…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi series of AI models, is targeting an IPO filing in Hong Kong in the second half of 2026 after its valuation surged from $4 billion to between $20 billion and $30 billi…
A team built a multi-agent system with an orchestrator, three sub-agents, and a memory layer to classify customer support tickets, but the task could have been handled by a single prompt with a well-written system messag…
Chinese startup Moonshot AI announced its Kimi K3 open-source AI model, claiming it matches or outperforms models from OpenAI and Anthropic, sending U.S. tech stocks tumbling. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.4% and the S&…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed on July 16, and the 8B model immediately landed at #1 on RTEB with a score of 78.5%, topping Voyage 4 Large, OpenAI text-embedding-3-large, and Cohere embed-v4. The model is available und…
Smaller, family-run businesses in mainland China are adopting artificial intelligence more readily than large enterprises, according to industry leaders at the inaugural Nusa Dua Forum in Bali. Zhou Yuxiang, founder and …
Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal AI model with a 1-million-token context window, at NVIDIA's GTC 2026, positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI and …
Netflix has acquired Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive for $587 million, marking a major investment in AI-driven content production. The deal, reported by Variety, positions Netflix to leverage InterPositive's techn…
Netflix disclosed in a July 2026 SEC filing that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, the generative AI startup founded by Ben Affleck in 2022 to build filmmaking tools. The acquisition, announced in March wit…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal model released on July 16, 2026, generated an H100 CUDA kernel that runs 14.82 times faster than optimized PyTorch, nearly matching Anthropic's Claud…
South Korea's US$4 trillion equity market, led by AI-driven swings in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, is increasingly setting the tone for global stocks, with the 60-day correlation between the Kospi and Nasdaq 100 cli…
Inference startups Fireworks, Baseten, and Together AI collectively raised $3.8 billion in four weeks, signaling that inference has become a control point in the AI industry, according to Forbes contributor Janakiram MSV…
Flitto, a Seoul-based translation app originally built for K-pop fans, now supplies training data for some of the world's largest AI models after landing two contracts worth a combined 31.6 billion won ($21.2 million) wi…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot has launched Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it claims is the world's largest, with performance approaching top US models. The launch comes amid intensifying AI competition…
SK Hynix surpassed Samsung Electronics to become South Korea's most valuable company, with a market capitalization of 2,080.4 trillion won ($1.35 trillion) on June 23, driven by a 300% year-to-date surge in its shares as…