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Since 2021, OpenAI employees and former employees have cumulatively cashed out nearly $3 billion through equity sales. This number is remarkable, especially in the tech industry where frequent stock sales are not common. SoftBank became the largest buyer in this transaction, purchasing almost half of the shares, further solidifying its position in the field of artificial intelligence. OpenAI holds two equity sales per year, with a significantly higher frequency than many tech companies. The original intention of this practice was to provide employees with the opportunity for financial freedom, thereby retention.

Tech media The Information reported that since 2021, employees and former employees of the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI have collectively cashed out nearly $3 billion through multiple stock sales. For a company only six years old, such a large-scale employee wealth realization is rare, even approaching the level of employees at Elon Musk's SpaceX. The report revealed that Japan's investment giant SoftBank has become the largest buyer of OpenAI employee shares. This spring, SoftBank purchased shares from a small group of current and former employees.

According to reports from the Financial Times, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is launching a stock sale plan worth $300 million. This plan is believed to be conducted in the secondary market with the aim of allowing company employees to sell their shares to new investors. The valuation of this stock sale reached $113 billion (approximately RMB 813.67 billion), showing the high attention the market pays to xAI. Previously, xAI was valued at $33 billion.

During a recent earnings call, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that Waymo may in the future sell self-driving cars for personal ownership. This news sparked considerable interest. When questioned about Waymo's long-term business model, Pichai stated that in addition to expansion with partners like Moove and Uber, Waymo is considering future options for personal ownership. Image Note: Image generated by AI.

X-ORIGIN-AI (Xuan Yuan Technology), a consumer-grade AI robot company, recently announced it has completed a Pre-A round of financing totaling nearly 100 million yuan. The round was led by Oriental Fortune Capital, with participation from Kingtop Capital and Lenovo Star, and Renchen Capital served as the financial advisor. This funding accelerates X-ORIGIN-AI's development in AI hardware and affective interaction, showcasing its breakthroughs in the development of emotionally intelligent AI products. X-ORIGIN-AI is dedicated to breaking the limitations of traditional AI tools and pushing human-computer interaction from a 'tool-based' to an 'emotionally intelligent' approach.

On March 31, Qianxun Intelligence (Spirit AI), a leading company in the embodied AI field, announced the completion of a Pre-A round of funding totaling 528 million RMB. This round was led by Prosperity7 Ventures (P7), an affiliate of Aramco Ventures, with participation from several renowned investors including China Merchants Venture Capital, GF Securities, Jingya Capital, Orient Capital, and Huacontrol Investment.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have recently released their latest research achievement – the TULIP (Towards Unified Language-Image Pretraining) model. This model aims to enhance the performance of vision-language pre-training, particularly in visually-centric tasks requiring high-fidelity understanding, overcoming the limitations of existing contrastive learning models (such as CLIP). TULIP integrates innovative techniques such as generative data augmentation, enhanced contrastive learning, and reconstruction regularization.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem WA7785a G3 server has achieved a record-breaking throughput of 6708 tokens per second while running the 671B parameter DeepSeek large language model. This demonstrates the exceptional performance capabilities of the system for demanding AI workloads.