AI briefing: DeepSeek's 150 openings have zero researcher roles; Mistral raises €3B
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-09
Industry moves
- DeepSeek opened 150 roles across backend and Agent elastic computing — with zero AI researcher positions
- Anthropic reportedly walked away from a $6B acquisition of Decart
- Mistral AI raised €3B led by Samsung at a €21B+ valuation, nearly doubling from its previous round
- Cognition AI raised $2B (a16z, Accel) at a $48B valuation, ARR near $900M
- Ex-Xiaomi L3 lead Wang Naiyan is founding an embodied-brain startup
- Perplexity launched a local agent built on Alibaba's Qwen3.8
⚠️ Unverified: The claim that OpenAI solved the Navier–Stokes millennium problem in 88 hours with an undisclosed frontier model and 10,000 agents lacks independent confirmation
Product launches
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash enters beta: new architecture, native multimodal, lower cost
- OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with up to 50% lower latency
- Alibaba's QoderWake 1.0 generates digital employees from job descriptions; WeChat Pay launched a smart-glasses SDK; Honor's MagicOS 11 ships system-level Agent Harness
Other: XPeng's humanoid robot line went live with >80% automation; FF claims 158 robot units sold in August; Taobao's flash-sale unit fined ¥6.55M.
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