DeepSeek Reopens Funding at $70B Valuation, Google Reorgs AI Leadership
APPSO · wechat · 2026-08-06
DeepSeek Reopens Funding: Seeking 50 billion RMB with a pre-money valuation of 500 billion RMB. Funds will expand GPU clusters and develop next-gen omni-modal models.
Google Reorgs AI Leadership: DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis becomes Alphabet Chief Scientist to focus on AGI strategy, while CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over daily management. Jeff Dean and three other core engineers left to form Discovery Loop.
Other Major Updates:
- Anthropic confirmed building an internal team to design custom chips for Claude.
- Unitree initiated STAR Market IPO inquiry, with an estimated valuation over 40 billion RMB.
- MiniMax open-sourced the 30B-parameter H3 video model, generating 2K video with audio.
- Cursor open-sourced the MoK framework, speeding up MoE training by 41%.
- An algorithm engineer was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months for maliciously deleting 89TB of AI models and data.
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