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Zhipu, the Tsinghua University spinout behind the GLM AI models, has seen its stock surge nearly 1,500 percent since its January IPO at HK$116.20, reaching a peak market cap above $100 billion, despite reporting revenue …
Chinese company Moonshot AI released its open source Kimi K3 model, which independent analyses show is competitive with frontier proprietary models, spooking Wall Street and causing the Nasdaq to drop about 1% on Friday …
Major AI subscription services including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini have all set their monthly price at $20, according to a blog post on QAInsights. The post traces the origin of this price ceiling and expla…
ZTE showcased the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, calling it the world's first agentic AI smartphone. The device, running ByteDance's Doubao AI agent, sold out its initial 30,000 units within hours an…
Z.ai, the Tsinghua University spinout co-founded by Tang Jie and CEO Zhang Peng, reached a July sales pace that would annualize to $1 billion, according to Bloomberg, which would make it the first Chinese AI model develo…
Anthropic raised $580M in a Series B in late 2022 with no product, using a 10-slide deck that led with safety and the team, and a waitlist of 2,500 companies. The company now has $47B in annualized revenue, a $965B valua…
Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin, 34, unveiled the Kimi K3 model on July 16, which topped the Arena Frontend Code Arena with a score of 1,679 and ranks first in six of seven frontend domains, while charging $3 per million…
Chinese AI firms Moonshot AI and MiniMax unveiled powerful new models at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17, triggering a broad sell-off in US tech stocks. The Nasdaq dropped 1.4%, the S&P 500 fell 1%, and se…
AMD, Arm Holdings, and Intel are competing to dominate the CPU market for autonomous AI agent workloads, a shift that could reshape semiconductor competition away from GPUs. AMD's x86 server CPU revenue share rose from 2…
Yang Zhilin, the 34-year-old founder and CEO of Chinese AI company Moonshot AI, has captured global attention with the release of the open-weight Kimi K3 model, which rivals leading American models in coding and agentic …
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is positioning itself as the indispensable second platform in the AI infrastructure market, rather than trying to beat Nvidia Corp., according to a Breaking Analysis. CEO Lisa Su's strategy fo…
Tencent's office-agent platform WorkBuddy has become China's largest product in its category with 8.85 million monthly active users, according to a report from Chinese research firm Analysys. The AI agent workspace, buil…
Tract, a venture-backed startup founded in May 2023 to address Britain's housing crisis by improving the planning permission process, ceased operations in March 2025 after raising a £744,000 pre-seed round in April 2024 …
Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI released the Kimi K3 AI model on July 16, 2026, featuring 2.8 trillion parameters and ranking fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, outperforming U.S. models like Opus 4.…
Beijing-based startup Moonshot released its Kimi K3 AI model, which tops Arena's ranking for front-end coding capability and costs half as much as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, according to Bank of America. The model's unveiling…
DeepSeek trained its flagship V3 model for about $5.6 million, a fraction of the $50 million to $100 million OpenAI spent on GPT-4, and the Chinese lab operating under U.S. chip export controls has continued to match or …
Alibaba Cloud launched Agent Native Cloud, a new cloud architecture for enterprise AI agents, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026 in Shanghai on July 18. The platform includes AgentTeams for orche…
A founder has launched IdeaGrit, a tool that uses category-specific validation workflows with nine predefined cards to help founders pre-mortem an idea before committing significant resources, addressing the gap between …
OpenEvidence, the Miami-based AI platform for healthcare professionals, is reportedly considering raising $200 million at a $20 billion valuation, a nearly 6x increase from its $3.5 billion valuation in July 2025. The co…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model, on July 16, and within a day it topped the Frontend Code Arena leaderboard with a score of 1679, beating Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. The Beijing-b…