Daily digest: OpenAI eyes 2027 IPO, Apple cuts staff AI budgets, Cat Wu joins OpenAI
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-11-05
Key items from this industry digest:
- Moonshot AI launched Kimi Hosted Agents, offering agent harness as a managed cloud service for long-horizon tasks and multi-agent collaboration.
- OpenAI president Greg Brockman says most revenue now comes from enterprise business and the company could be IPO-ready by 2027, while competing with Anthropic for enterprise customers and pushing Codex. Anthropic may go public this year.
- Talent: former Claude Code product lead Cat Wu joins OpenAI as head of product management for Core Products.
- Ant Group's LingGuang 2.0 managed 1.16M+ tasks in its first week; users now exceed 20M.
- Apple is tightening employee AI budgets: daily caps cut from $300 to $200 for some engineers, possibly down to $100 or $25, with some teams pushed to cheaper or local models; FY2026 R&D spend up 32%.
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