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xAI announced the completion of a $20 billion funding round with NVIDIA's participation to expand Grok and build its own AI infrastructure; Accenture acquired UK AI company Faculty for $1 billion and appointed its CEO as Group CTO; Open WebUI patched the high-risk CVE-2025-64496 vulnerability (affecting up to v0.6.34) to block SSE injection and potential RCE risks
NVIDIA open-sources Alpamayo 1 (10-billion parameters) and provides 1700+ hours of driving data and the AlpaSim simulation framework; NVIDIA releases Jetson T4000 (1,200 FP4 TFLOPS, 64GB memory) priced at $1,999 per unit for orders of 1,000 or more; TII open-sources Falcon H1R 7B and discloses AIME 2025 score of 83.1
Global GPU order volume expected to be ~2 million but immediate supply is only ~700,000, prompting large companies to turn to ASICs; LMArena completes $100M funding round to support user-vote-driven model evaluation and inference costs
China Meteorological Administration released/upgraded 5 major weather AI models; Fengqing generates 15-day global forecasts in 3 minutes, Fenglei's strong echo forecast quality improved over 25%; xAI's Grok is accused of generating sexualized 'undressing' images, Reuters counted at least 21 requests fully satisfied, and India demands a rectification report within 72 hours; Biren Technology raised $558 million in its HK IPO, surged 76% on the first day to reach a market cap of HK$46.9 billion.
Google releases Gemini 3 Pro, achieving 1501 Elo on LMArena, and Deep Think improves Humanity’s Last Exam score to 41%; ByteDance plans to procure approximately $14 billion worth of Nvidia chips in 2026, with Chinese companies booking over 2 million H200s; Nvidia reportedly acquires inference chip company Groq for $20 billion.
OpenAI plans to release a new-generation audio model in Q1 2026, paving the way for screenless personal devices; Z.ai open-sources GLM-4.7, achieving 67.5 on BrowseComp and 87.4 on τ²-Bench, and launches API; DeepSeek proposes mHC architecture, validated on 3B/9B/27B models with training overhead increasing only 6.7% at scaling factor 4.
SoftBank makes a massive $40 billion bet on OpenAI; Zhipu AI to become the world's first listed foundational model company; Meta acquires Manus for $2 billion to strengthen its AI Agent ecosystem; Gartner predicts 60% of enterprise GenAI will shift to vertical-specific large models by 2026.