Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang’s children and son-in-law have moved into the company’s core businesses, and the shift is drawing fresh scrutiny as the chipmaker’s value crosses 5.5 trillion dollars. Generated editorial illustration. The most talked-about appointment is his son-in-law, Nico Caprez. Caprez married Huang’s eldest daughter, Madison Huang, in Hawaii in late September. He … Read more
At its Suzhou technology conference on 22 to 23 September, Intel laid out two answers to one shift: AI value is moving from the cloud model race to deployment at the edge and on the factory floor. Dan Rodriguez, vice-president of edge computing, cited a forecast that about 80 per cent of tokens will be … Read more
For two years the “price butcher” of large models was never Claude. DeepSeek drove per-million-token prices to cents and trained Chinese vendors to match. On 8 October the positions flipped. Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5, a lightweight model for everyday tasks, at USD 0.10 in and USD 0.50 out per million tokens for requests under … Read more
DeepSeek is close to finalising a new funding round of at least RMB 80 billion, with Tencent and CATL among the largest committed investors, Bloomberg reported on 6 October, in a deal that paves the way for an initial public offering early in 2027. People familiar with the terms said the final total could approach … Read more
Yesterday OpenAI released 722 AI maths manuscripts. Today it has withdrawn three of them, over a single wrong sign. OpenAI Pulls Three AI Maths Papers Over a Single Wrong Sign (Generated editorial image, Robot Belt) The three retracted papers all touch the Hodge conjecture, one of the Millennium Prize problems. The fault sits in the … Read more
Bona Film Group has announced that Sanxingdui: Tales of the Future, a 100-minute feature fully generated by artificial intelligence with no live actors on screen, will open nationwide on 23 October, becoming the first AI-made feature to receive a public-release licence from China’s film regulator. China’s First AI-Made Feature Film Cleared Censors and Opens (Source: … Read more
Since ChatGPT, large language models have split into two camps. General models such as Baidu’s ERNIE, Alibaba’s Qwen and iFlytek’s Spark target the base layer, while vertical models train industry-specific systems on top of general ones for finance, health care, education and transport. China’s Small AI Shops Face a Life-or-Death Choice: General (Source: LeiPhone) Wu … Read more
At Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui on 22 September, Qualcomm unveiled two flagship chips built on a 2nm process: the sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme and the Snapdragon 8 Elite. It is the first time the company has launched two Elite-tier platforms together, and the first time the Snapdragon line has used a 2nm node. … Read more
DeepSeek is close to sealing a new financing round of at least RMB 80 billion, with Tencent and the battery maker CATL among the largest backers, according to a Bloomberg report published on 6 October. DeepSeek Is Closing a RMB 80 Billion Round as It Lines Up a (Source: Zhidx) The terms already signed suggest … Read more
On 15 September, at the 2026 Embodied Perception Fusion and Multimodal LLM Innovation Seminar, Zhu Jie, vice president of Chaowei Dynamics, shared how to build a data system for general-purpose embodied intelligence. A Start-up Is Building the Data Plumbing That General-Purpos (Source: Gasgoo) The breakthrough in general embodied intelligence does not rest on a single … Read more