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Claude double king bomb! Officials Announce $44.07 Billion in Funding, Opus 4.8, the Most Powerful General Purpose Model, Debuts

Early this morning, Anthropic's strongest general-purpose model Claude Opus 4.8 was officially released, the new model benchmark test comprehensively surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro, Opus 4.7, only one inferior to the GPT-5.5, but the price of its standard model remains the same...

From Fudan Talent to $15 Billion Unicorn: Fireworks AI's Wild Ride

While the entire AI industry is still fighting over "who can train the strongest model", a Chinese woman at the helm of the company has quietly shifted the battlefield to "who can make the model run faster and cheaper" - which, in turn, happens to be the most valuable business in 2026. According to a Bloomberg report today, people familiar with the matter...

Super fusion IPO full analysis: Huawei's ”orphan” arithmetic king figure, 8 billion fundraising sword pointed to the future of intelligent computing

On May 22, 2026, a paper acceptance announcement on the official website of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange officially pushed an arithmetic giant spun off from Huawei into the spotlight of the capital market. (hereinafter referred to as "Super Fusion") GEM IPO was officially accepted to raise 8 billion yuan, a...

Oura: One ring, prying tens of billions of dollars of health empire

Oura, a health tech company born in Oulu, Finland in 2013 and now headquartered in Finland and San Francisco, USA, is led by Petteri Lahtela, who has deep R&D experience at Nokia and Polar, Kari ...

The largest AI chip IPO in history is here! Soars 1,09% in intraday trading, market cap over $450bn

On May 15, Cerebras Systems, an American AI chip company, officially went public on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “CBRS”. Cerebras issue price of 185 U.S. dollars per share (about 1,255 yuan), opened up 89% to 350 per share....

2.1 Billion Dollars - The Largest AI Pharma Funding Ever Raised is Born

May 13, 2011 - Isomorphic Labs, a UK-based R&D company for AI drugs spun out of Google DeepMind, yesterday announced the completion of a $2.1 billion (roughly Rs. 14.3 billion) Series B financing round. The round was funded by Thrive Capital for the first consecutive...

17 billion! Largest financing for a large Chinese model, changing ownership in just one day

According to sources, Step Star will complete nearly 2.5 billion U.S. dollars (about 17 billion yuan) financing, and has dismantled the red chip structure, accelerated preparations for the IPO in Hong Kong, or will become the Chi Spectrum, MiniMax in addition to the other domestic large model companies listed in Hong Kong. To be completed, this round of financing will be over...

Moonshot AI secures another $2 billion in funding, valuing over $20 billion and becoming China's most highly funded large model company

On May 6, Kimi's parent company Dark Side of the Moon is about to close a new $2 billion round of financing, with a post-investment valuation topping $20 billion, according to LatePost. The round was led by Meituan Dragon Pearl (which contributed over $200 million), with participation from China Mobile and CPE (CITIC Industrial Fund). ...

OpenAI dumps GPT-5.5 Instant! Illusion plummets 52%, talks 30% less, all free!

Today, OpenAI officially launched GPT-5.5 Instant version, which will be gradually rolled out to all ChatGPT users starting today, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as the default model. This update mainly reflects the daily interaction, GPT-5.5...

AI Big Model's “Chinese Tax”: Chinese Costs More Token Than English, Why?

When Opus 4.7 was first released, there were a lot of complaints on X. Some people said that one conversation used up her session quota. Some people said that one conversation maxed out her session quota, others said that the cost to run the same piece of code more than doubled from the previous week, and still others revealed that their $200 Max subscription touched down in less than two hours...