Mystery OxAlpha Beats Claude; Alibaba Raises $10B for AI

创业邦 · wechat · 2026-08-24

Industry Updates

OxAlpha Model: Anonymous model OxAlpha scored 63% on DeepSWE, surpassing Claude 3.5 Sonnet (52%) and GPT-4o. Speculation suggests it is Zhipu's new model due to tokenizer similarities, triggering a global developer rush.
Alibaba Funding: Alibaba plans to raise $10 billion (80 billion HKD) via new share placement, with 100% of proceeds dedicated to full-stack AI capabilities and infrastructure.
Nvidia Price Hike: Nvidia informed customers that server prices for its AI chips will rise by over 15%, affecting deliveries next year (Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell).
DeepSeek Pricing: DeepSeek announced weekend pricing will permanently follow off-peak rates.

Business Applications

US Legal AI Switches to Kimi: SF-based Harvey dropped Anthropic/OpenAI/Google models to build its internal model Harvey Tenet on China's Kimi (Moonshot AI), claiming SOTA performance in legal tasks.

Hardware & Robotics

Honor Robot Breaks Records: Honor's robot 'Lightning' broke human world records in 100m, 400m, and 1500m races at the World Robot Games; Elon Musk reposted the video.
Oura Sued: Smart ring maker Oura faces a class-action lawsuit for allegedly exaggerating sleep tracking accuracy.
Huawei FreeBuds 7 Leak: New buds drop the water-drop design, support NearLink, and feature adaptive noise cancellation.

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