Nvidia board reportedly weighs ousting Jensen Huang; ByteDance preps "Chinese Muse"
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-11-12
Key items: Nvidia's board is reportedly preparing to discuss ousting CEO Jensen Huang after revelations of two extramarital affairs (shares fell 9% after hours); Huang apologized at an internal meeting. ByteDance plans a Meta Muse-like AI assistant within weeks, with Zhang Yiming saying frontier parity won't come until 2029-2030; ByteDance's AI chip lead is also departing after underwhelming tape-out results. Also: OpenAI killing legacy voice modes for GPT-Live and acquiring travel startup Odessia; Anthropic raising $3-3.5B in Japan at $1T valuation; Qwen4-Max preview live; DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2.5 hitting 96% success in Mercedes pilots; Tencent launching Yuanbao Search; Anthropic CEO Amodei predicting cancer and heart disease become history within a decade.
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