AI industry daily: Korea's $100B US investment, Christiano joins OpenAI board, Kimi partner program
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-09-10
A roundup of AI industry news: Korea is close to a $100B+ energy investment in the US (up to 8 nuclear plants plus gas) to power AI data centers; alignment researcher Paul Christiano joined OpenAI's nonprofit board and safety committee, warning humanity could permanently lose control of superintelligence; ByteDance hired ex-Coatue executive Jiang Kai to lead its HK investment team; DeepSeek released Harness v0.1.5 optimized for V4.1 Flash; The Boring Company raised $3B at a $23B valuation for 150+ km of tunnels in the UAE; Moonshot AI launched the Kimi enterprise partner program with forward-deployed engineers; and Alibaba is leading a $300M round in AI eval startup UniPatAI at a $2.5B valuation.
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