Daily AI digest: Muse hits 700K users, Anthropic signs $11.6B compute deal with Akamai
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-26
A roundup of AI industry news:
- Models & products: GPT-6 Astra passed a real-world driving test in a Toyota Corolla via MCP-controlled openpilot on its second attempt; Microsoft overhauled Copilot with a coding tool and always-on agentic assistant, embedding Word/Excel/PowerPoint; Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live with real-time avatars and speech-to-speech sync across 97 languages.
- Companies & compute: Anthropic signed a seven-year, $11.6B compute deal with Akamai; Musk plans to more than double Nvidia chips in Colossus 2 (currently 110K GB200 + 440K GB300) by year-end; OpenEvidence's valuation rose to $15B; DensityAI is reportedly raising at $10B with a16z in talks.
- Also: Meta's Muse hit 700K DAU in 10 days but shows compute-driven degradation; Jensen Huang dismissed concerns about AI eroding basic math skills; 50 tons of books from Japanese used bookstores were shipped to Anthropic for scanning; Unitree's Wang Xingxing says millimeter-level precision is robotics' core bottleneck.
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