OpenAI Buybacks at $852B Valuation, Nvidia's $500B AI Fund, Meta Releases MuseGlimmer
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-08-12
OpenAI is repurchasing roughly $7 billion in shares from current and former employees at an $852 billion valuation, positioning itself for a future IPO.
Nvidia signed an MoU with six financial giants, including Apollo and BlackRock, to establish a standalone AI compute financing platform aiming to raise over $500 billion in third-party capital.
OpenAI launched a premium ChatGPT Business seat at $125/month, offering five times the usage of standard plans.
Meta released MuseGlimmer, a new open-weight model designed for agentic tasks and local execution. Mark Zuckerberg urged the US government to lower policy barriers for open-weight AI and review model distillation policies.
Alibaba's Qwen App introduced paid tiers for its office assistant, ranging up to 1,499 RMB/year, while keeping basic features free.
DeepSeek established a new "Harness" team division and is actively hiring for the department.
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