APPSO briefing: NVIDIA staff urge Huang's return, LangChain raises $300M at $3B
APPSO · wechat · 2026-11-14
APPSO's tech briefing rounds up key AI news: NVIDIA employees posted 1,600+ internal comments urging the board to bring Jensen Huang back after his exit (CFO Kress is interim CEO; the stock fell 12.7% this week); DeepSeek opened search/file/voice tool APIs; OpenAI disbanded its robotics team, folding researchers into general model research citing GPT-6Astra; LangChain raised $300M at a $3B valuation with 7,000+ orgs on LangSmith; Tencent released real-time voice model HyRealtime; Thinking Machines open-sourced Inkling2Small weights (594B total/17B active MoE, Apache 2.0); Alibaba launched AI songwriting app "Happy Xiami"; plus Microsoft 365 outage updates and Gemini's Google Wallet integration.
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