Zhipu closes ~$5B round; Altman says no OpenAI IPO in 2026; RSI rumor swirls around Google
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-14
An industry digest of five notable AI stories:
- Zhipu secures $5B via a $2B share placement plus $3B zero-coupon convertible bonds, its third raise since its January HK IPO, funding compute, model R&D, and infrastructure.
- Anthropic's Dario Amodei calls for slowing frontier AI development; Elon Musk endorsed him ("Dario is right"), and Sam Altman agreed, pledging employee-level access for independent evaluators.
- Altman: no OpenAI IPO in 2026, citing unresolved safety and alignment work; hints leading labs may be close to an agreement on slowing development.
- Unconfirmed rumor that Google DeepMind is nearing recursive self-improvement, timing coinciding with the slowdown chorus.
- Meta AI privacy flaw fixed after the feature surfaced questions about children and home addresses in an influencer's video.
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