SoftBank's OpenAI stake hits $64.6B at 13%; Anthropic files for up to $69.3B IPO

创业邦 · wechat · 2026-11-11

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SoftBank completed its $30B additional investment in OpenAI in three $10B tranches, bringing cumulative investment to $64.6B for roughly a 13% stake; the bridge financing facility has been fully cancelled.
Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.5 under MIT license: a 1.6T-parameter MoE model activating 48B per token, natively multimodal, built for long-horizon agent tasks with 1M-token context.
Anthropic is reportedly IPO-ing to raise up to $69.3B at $70–80 per share, issuing 867M Class A shares, with Google, NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Microsoft and TSMC investing $26B via private placement at the IPO price.
Ant Lingbo open-sourced LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model pretrained on 5,000 hours of real tactile data spanning magnetic, visuo-tactile and piezoresistive sensing.
NVIDIA released GR00T2, a world-action model pretrained on 400K+ hours of egocentric video, 10K hours of handheld gripper demos and 23.5K hours of teleoperation, predicting future video and robot actions jointly.
The Golden Rooster Awards launched its first AI film unit, with a 72-hour AI hackathon drawing 287 teams.
Former Toutiao CEO Chen Lin confirmed he left ByteDance to found an AI education startup.

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