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...

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...

One billion! Largest Robot Chip Financing This Year

Just now, Shenzhen-based robotics chip company Groundnut Robotics announced that it has taken $150 million (roughly Rs. 1.024 billion) in new Series B2 funding from a retail tech and supply chain giant, DDT, Prosperity7 Venture Capital Fund, Gao Tiles Venture Capital, Temasek's Vertex Grow...

OpenAI shuts down Sora! 25 months from capping to retiring!

Early this morning, OpenAI's video generation product, Sora, announced via its official account that it is shutting down its video generation app and Sora 2 model API service. Sora team released a statement: We are about to say goodbye to Sora. Thank you to everyone who used Sora to create and share work...