Daily brief: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash update, Anthropic's $60B TPU debt financing details
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-10-18
Startup digest of AI news: DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 with self-feedback RL training boosting from-scratch game/3D project builds; Microsoft Research unveiled StudentSim, per-student AI simulators for evaluating AI tutors without live experiments; Samsung reportedly developing an Android-based GalaxyOS with deep AI integration, expected with Galaxy S28 in 2028; Anthropic will remove Claude Haiku 4.5 from Free/Pro/Max pickers on Oct 29, auto-switching to Haiku 5.5 (API and Claude Code unaffected); Musk claims a Hagglebot negotiation robot could save up to $6T/year globally; and Anthropic's $60B "Project Northstar" chip financing will fund 1.5GW of Google TPUs, with Blackstone buying $9B of subordinated debt at 10%+ yields.
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