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MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie announced he will not take a salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence (AGI). He also pledged to transfer 4% of his personal shares to employees and 1% to support open-source AI development. The company is also seeking to raise approximately HK$16.04 billion.
Zhipu AI's market capitalization exceeded $128 billion on Monday, driven by investor optimism following the release of its new GLM-5.2 model. The model ranks second globally for front-end web development tasks.
EU antitrust regulators have ordered Meta to provide rival AI companies, including OpenAI, free access to WhatsApp. The move aims to investigate claims that Meta abused its market position by blocking competitors while favoring its own AI assistant.
IDC has structured the enterprise agent AI market into three layers: the agent itself, creation/operation technologies, and execution infrastructure. A survey reveals 77% of organizations are deploying AI agents, with many opting for multiple vendors due to market fluidity and rapid change.
Nvidia's CFO expressed uncertainty about generating revenue from China despite US license approvals for H200 shipments, as the company excludes China data center compute revenue from its outlook.
Alibaba's chairman Joe Tsai and CEO Eddie Wu Yongming stated in a shareholder letter that the addressable market for full-stack AI providers like Alibaba is expected to grow exponentially. They also noted that China is building its "AI factory" through Alibaba's cloud computing unit.
NanoCo, the company behind the security-focused AI agent NanoClaw, has secured an oversubscribed $12 million seed funding round. The company's viral launch, boosted by endorsements from AI researcher Andrej Karpathy and Singapore's foreign minister, attracted significant investor interest, including a $20 million acquisition offer.
Baidu's AI businesses, including AI cloud, applications, and marketing, became its primary revenue driver in Q1, with revenue surging 49% year-on-year to 13.6 billion yuan. AI cloud alone grew 79% to 8.8 billion yuan, signaling AI's core role in the company's strategy.
Four members of a family died after consuming watermelon in Mumbai's Bhendi Bazaar, prompting a Maharashtra FDA investigation that has been hampered by the complete disappearance of watermelons from local markets. The deceased are Abdulla Dakodia (44), his wife Nasreen (35), and daughters Ayesha (16) and Zainab (12). FDA officials need 500gm of watermelon from four different areas within a 5-10km radius but have found none from Wadala to Byculla. Test results for samples seized from the home have been delayed.
Global market strategist Arnab Das identifies two major structural shifts reshaping markets: Anthropic now holds 32% of enterprise LLM market share versus OpenAI's declining dominance, while the UAE's exit from OPEC weakens Saudi Arabia's oil price control. Both trends will define the investment landscape into the next decade, with AI facing monetization questions and OPEC's ability to act as a reliable global price floor materially weakened.
DeepSeek has reduced prices for its AI models by up to 97%, making V4-Pro cost US$0.0036 per million input tokens versus OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at US$0.5, potentially triggering a price war in the competitive AI market. The cuts for API users are effective immediately and permanent.
SpaceX has secured an option to acquire AI code-generation startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, or pay $10 billion for a new partnership. The deal would give xAI, which merged with SpaceX in February, a stronger foothold in the competitive AI coding market where it has lagged rivals. SpaceX highlighted that combining Cursor's product with its Colossus supercomputer in Memphis would enable building 'the world's most useful models.' The announcement precedes SpaceX's anticipated public debut with a valuation near $1.75 trillion and a $75 billion fundraise that could become the largest IPO in history.
