DeepSeek lost $71.5M on $47.5M revenue in 7 months; MiniMax ARR tops $800M
APPSO · wechat · 2026-08-27
Key AI news: Apple's Sept 10 event is expected to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro and first foldable iPhone; ChatGPT Business Premium seats are now open at $125/user/month with 5x usage; per The Information, DeepSeek booked 475M RMB revenue in the first 7 months (10x last year) with a 715M RMB net loss, 82.9% API gross margin, and is raising at a 500B RMB pre-money valuation.
Company moves: OpenAI data center head Chris Malone departed, bringing 2025 exec departures to at least 14; MiniMax's Q2 revenue grew 81.8% QoQ with ARR topping $800M in August; Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Flash with the open-sourced Next architecture, and Zhipu open-sourced GLM-5.3-Flash with 1M context; Nvidia posted $96.22B quarterly revenue with $89B from data centers.
Security & research: a researcher found Windows Paint and Photos embed an invisible GUID in AI images tied to InvisMark watermarking and remote prompt moderation; an Anthropic–EPFL paper shows multi-agent systems can spread "mind viruses," nearly fully blocked by a brief system-prompt warning; Meta agreed to pay up to $18B to settle teen social media lawsuits.
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