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AI chip startup Groq is in negotiations for a new $600 million funding round, with a valuation reaching $6 billion, doubling from last year's $2.8 billion valuation. The company was founded by developers of Google's TPU and has recently made significant partnerships with Bell Canada and Meta to support their AI infrastructure projects. This round is led by Disruptive, with previous investors including Blackstone and Cisco.

AMD Ryzen AI Max+395 upgrades to support 128B-parameter local AI models, requiring 128GB RAM (96GB VRAM). Runs 109B-parameter models like Meta Llama4Sout at 15 tokens/sec with 256K context length. MoE architecture enables efficient processing. 128GB AI workstations now priced at ~$1,800.....

Quest Mobile reports top 20 fastest-growing apps (June 2025). AIGC's DeepSeek leads with 163M MAU, Doubao hits 141M (+410% YoY). Hongguo (212M) and UnionPay (188M) lead short videos & payments. List reflects AIGC and online video growth potential.....

Anthropic plans to raise $3-5B at a $170B valuation, led by Iconiq Capital. The OpenAI rival, founded by ex-OpenAI staff, raised $3.5B in March at $61.5B valuation. Revenue grew from $4B to $5B annually by July. Amid fierce AI funding competition, CEO admits difficulty in ideal capital sourcing.....

AI chip firm Groq in talks for $600M funding at $6B valuation. Founded by ex-Google TPU team, its valuation doubled in a year, securing deals with Bell Canada and Meta. Previously raised $1B+ from BlackRock, Samsung.....

Tesla partners with Samsung for $16.5B AI6 chip production in Texas, targeting autonomous driving, robots, and AI training. Musk notes AI5 design completion with TSMC, as Samsung produces AI4. This deal boosts Samsung, with potential orders exceeding the agreement. Tesla shifts from NVIDIA to in-house chips since 2019, accelerating its AI transformation.....

Ali International AI Solution Marco wins the SAIL Star Award at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. The solution supports more than 40 languages and covers over 60 e-commerce scenarios, with a hallucination rate of only 0.02%, significantly better than industry standards. Ali International AI service has a daily call volume exceeding 1 billion, and has been opened to external ecosystems, driving a 23-fold increase in AI call volume for partners. It has now launched three Agent applications: Smart Refund, Customs Code, and Online Recruitment, achieving a 15% reduction in refund costs, a 23% improvement in accuracy, and improved recruitment efficiency.

Samsung Electronics secures $16.5B AI chip deal with Tesla, becoming its main supplier. The historic order boosts Samsung's chip business while enhancing Tesla's autonomous driving tech. Both plan deeper collaboration in EV innovation.....

Pudong New Area launched a seed fund with a total scale of 2 billion yuan for artificial intelligence. The first phase is 500 million yuan, making it the first state-owned capital venture capital fund in China focusing on the pre-seed stage. It has signed 18 projects. The AI industry scale in Pudong exceeds 160 billion yuan, accounting for 40% of the city, and has gathered more than 200 specialized model enterprises. In the future, five major measures will be implemented: releasing over 30 application scenarios, building a heterogeneous robot training field, establishing a full-cycle fund matrix, optimizing industrial policies, and providing talent services. The goal is to add 1,000 AI companies within three years, and the core output value will exceed 200 billion yuan, aiming to build a comprehensive AI ecosystem.

Wang Xingxing, founder of Unitree Tech, stated at the AI Women's Elite Forum that the humanoid robot industry is experiencing explosive growth, with Chinese manufacturers achieving 50%-100% growth in H1. He highlighted the integration of general AI and robotics as a key trend, noting significant progress in code generation, where AI success rates now exceed 90%. Wang likened AI's productivity impact to the electricity revolution, calling this a f....

OpenAI seeks $40B funding for 'Stargate' AI project amid financial crisis. SoftBank's $10B investment may withdraw due to location disputes. With $10B revenue but $5B annual loss, profitability is expected by 2029. Recent $30B Oracle deal and talks with Saudi/Indian investors. Internal issues (failed acquisitions, talent drain) and Meta competition raise market concerns.....

OpenAI and Oracle have reached a $30 billion data center cooperation agreement, involving 4.5 gigawatts of power capacity (equivalent to the output of two Hoover Dams). This deal is part of their Star Gate project, with construction taking place in Abilene, Texas. Oracle has spent nearly $5 billion on data centers in the past two years, supporting not only OpenAI but also existing customers. Notably, OpenAI's annual revenue of $10 billion is only one-third of this contract's value. This collaboration has driven Oracle's stock to a new high, and its founder Ellison briefly became the world's richest person.

OpenAI partners with Oracle for $30B cloud deal, part of 'Stargate' project with 4.5GW data centers. Oracle's stock hit record high, boosting Ellison to world's 2nd richest. OpenAI's $10B revenue tripled by this deal. Oracle to invest $50B in data centers amid energy/funding challenges.....

OpenAI will restart fundraising on July 28, aiming to complete a $40 billion funding goal, with SoftBank leading the $30 billion investment (of which SoftBank will contribute $22.5 billion). After this funding, the valuation will reach $300 billion, making it one of the most highly valued startups. The company also plans to collaborate with SoftBank on a $50 billion interstellar gate AI data center project. In response to disputes over its structure, OpenAI has proposed a new architectural plan: retaining control of the non-profit organization and transferring the for-profit division into a public-benefit company. SoftBank's investment depends on whether the new structure can be implemented by 2025.

ByteDance open sources the lightweight multilingual translation model Seed-X, which supports bidirectional translation in 28 languages and demonstrates performance comparable to top-level large models. This 7-billion-parameter model is based on the Mistral architecture and focuses on translation optimization, showing excellent performance in multiple areas. It uses an innovative training strategy to generate high-quality data and optimize deployment efficiency. This is another open-source project from ByteDance following BAGEL and Seed-Coder, promoting advancements in AI translation technology.

ChatGPT handles 2.5B daily queries, with 330M from the US. While smaller than Google's 14B searches, its rapid growth (doubling in 8 months) reflects surging demand for AI assistants in tasks like research and writing, signaling deeper AI integration into daily life.....

Design software company Figma has launched its IPO roadshow, planning to issue 36 million shares of Class A stock at a price of $25 to $28 per share, with an estimated fundraising of $1 billion. If priced at the midpoint, the company's valuation would reach $15.9 billion, which is lower than Adobe's previous $20 billion acquisition offer but higher than the $12.5 billion private valuation. Figma was founded by Field and Wallace in 2012 and has raised $740 million in funding. After submitting its listing application in April, it has officially entered the final stage of its IPO process.

New data from OpenAI shows that ChatGPT processes 2.5 billion user prompts daily (330 million of which are from the United States), more than doubling from 1 billion prompts in December last year. Although it still lags behind Google's daily search volume of 13.7 to 16.4 billion, this rapid growth highlights the potential of generative AI to change the way people access information. Data shows that ChatGPT has strong user retention and widespread global adoption.

Progress on the US 'Interstellar Gateway' AI Project is Halted: The original plan of 50 billion dollars in investment faces reduction, with SoftBank and OpenAI having disagreements on key terms such as data center location. The project has not completed any data center transactions six months after its launch, and currently only plans to build a small data center in Ohio by the end of the year. Masayoshi Son remains confident in his investment in OpenAI, but Altman has sought other partners and has reached a 3 billion dollar data center agreement with Oracle. The project's progress is far below expectations, highlighting the challenges faced in AI infrastructure development.

AI code review startup Greptile raised $30M Series A at $180M valuation, led by Benchmark. Founded by 2023 grad Daksh Gupta, its AI detects code errors but faces rivals like Graphite. Gupta's demanding work culture sparked controversy.....