Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at $30B valuation; Alibaba Wan3.0 supports doc-to-video
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-08-24
Nvidia to invest in Perplexity?
Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity, potentially valuing the AI startup at over $30 billion. Perplexity's annualized revenue has grown from under $250M to over $750M this year.
Alibaba Wan3.0 launches
Alibaba released Wan3.0, a video model generating 30s clips that supports inputting documents (doc/ppt/pdf) directly. API is discounted.
HuggingFace exploring sale
HuggingFace is exploring a sale, potentially valued at $13B, working with an investment bank.
Agent writes quantum code
Pasqal developed an AI agent that generates quantum computing code from natural language and runs it on real quantum hardware.
Kimi K2.5 retiring
Moonshot AI announced its first trillion-parameter multimodal model, KimiK2.5, will end service this month.
Altman on AI control
Sam Altman expressed concerns about AI being controlled by a few entities, emphasizing that society and models should co-evolve.
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