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NVIDIA Bets $60 Billion on Open Source, Selling Shovels While Digging for Gold

NVIDIA is making a massive $6 billion bet on open-source AI, strategically investing in and acquiring key technologies while publicly advocating for a dual approach of both closed and open models. The company recently invested $1 billion in AI startup Poolside and secured a $6 billion non-exclusive license for its "model factory" technology, aiming to recruit its engineering team to build world-class open-source models. This move targets leading open-source players like DeepSeek and Kimi. NVIDIA's open-source push includes its own Nemotron model series, which openly shares weights, data, and training methodologies. It also leads the "Nemotron Alliance," a consortium of companies co-developing open models, and expands its open-source efforts into robotics, simulation, and biotech. The deal with Poolside, a company founded on idealistic principles favoring a diverse AI ecosystem, follows a pattern of gaining control over strategic open-source assets without formal acquisition to avoid antitrust scrutiny. Analysts note NVIDIA's primary goal is not model supremacy but stimulating continuous demand for its chips by ensuring the entire AI ecosystem keeps expanding and requiring more computing power. As NVIDIA executives state, models are a byproduct; the core business is ensuring the company's enduring relevance in the AI-driven future.

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NVIDIA Bets $60 Billion on Open Source, Selling Shovels While Digging for Gold

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He Xiaopeng Breaks Unitree's Record

He Xiaopeng Breaks Unitree's Record: Xiaopeng Group's Humanoid Robot Arm Valued at $6.3 Billion In a landmark deal mirroring Unitree's recent listing, Xiaopeng Group has announced the completion of the first private equity financing round for its humanoid robotics business, led by IDG Capital. The funding round raised over $900 million (approximately 6.5 billion RMB), resulting in a post-investment valuation exceeding $6.3 billion (approximately 43 billion RMB). This surpasses the total funds raised by Unitree Technology in its recent IPO. He Xiaopeng, founder of XPeng Motors, is personally leading the robotics venture as its CEO. Established in 2020, the company has quickly become a super unicorn. Its latest robot model, IRON, debuted in late 2025 with a highly realistic, human-proportioned design and the ability to perform complex movements like a "catwalk," sparking significant online attention. The round saw participation from IDG Capital, Gaorong Capital, and strategic investors Tencent and Alibaba. He Xiaopeng stated that Xiaopeng IRON is on the cusp of mass production, with plans for commercial deployment starting from XPeng's own stores and campuses by the end of 2026, followed by official market launch in 2027. He believes each IRON robot's lifetime revenue and profit contribution will significantly exceed that of the current automotive business per vehicle. This development comes amidst a heated race in China's embodied AI sector, following Unitree's recent listing as the "first humanoid robot stock." Major automotive giants, including Tesla, GAC Group, Changan, Li Auto, and BYD, are now entering the field. Leveraging their existing expertise in autonomous driving, supply chains, and mass manufacturing, these companies pose a formidable challenge to standalone robotics startups. The competition signals a shift in the industry, where future success will depend on demonstrable commercialization, mass production capabilities, and clear revenue paths rather than just technological concepts.

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He Xiaopeng Breaks Unitree's Record

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Huang Renxun Invests $60 Billion to Build the World's Top Open-Source Model

NVIDIA is reportedly investing $6 billion to develop a world-leading open-source AI model. The plan involves a strategic deal with AI startup Poolside, including a $6 billion licensing fee for its "model factory" technology, hiring 109 of its core engineers into NVIDIA's Nemotron project, and an additional $1 billion investment in the company. This move is seen as a "soft acquisition" to rapidly gain top talent and technology while avoiding stringent antitrust scrutiny. The engineers will focus on accelerating the development of Nemotron 4, a massive model aiming for trillion-scale parameters, positioning it among the top-tier global AI models. NVIDIA's shift reflects a strategic push to strengthen the open-source AI ecosystem in response to rising competition, particularly from advanced, cost-effective open-weight models like DeepSeek, which have challenged U.S. tech dominance. While NVIDIA risks competing directly with major GPU customers like OpenAI and Anthropic, analysts suggest the company aims to maintain a delicate balance—applying competitive pressure to drive continued demand for its hardware while advancing its own model capabilities. This investment underscores NVIDIA's ambition to move beyond being a mere hardware provider and actively shape the future of AI.

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Huang Renxun Invests $60 Billion to Build the World's Top Open-Source Model

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Anthropic's New Models 'Catch the Gossip', The Strongest Fable 5 Unexpectedly Falls Flat

Anthropic has been discovered working on two new, previously unknown models codenamed "Marshmallow" (claude-marshmallow-eap) and "Melon" (claude-melon-eap), with early tests showing Marshmallow potentially surpassing Claude Opus 5 in conversational naturalness. Their emergence coincides with surprising new data revealing that Anthropic's flagship Fable 5 model, released two months ago as its strongest and most expensive offering, is being largely ignored by the enterprise market. According to spending data from Ramp tracking over 70,000 US companies, Fable 5 accounts for only about 11% of total token spending on Anthropic's models. This pales in comparison to OpenAI's flagship GPT-5.6 Sol, which commands roughly 25% of token spending in the same period. The tepid adoption is largely attributed to Fable 5's extremely high cost—double that of Opus 4.8 and ten times that of Haiku 4.5—without delivering proportionally superior performance for most business applications. Compounding the issue, the later-released Claude Opus 5, priced at half the cost of Fable 5, has achieved comparable or even better results in key benchmarks like programming and knowledge work, quickly surpassing Fable 5 in enterprise spending share. Furthermore, the rapid rise of powerful, low-cost open-source models—whose token usage share surged from 11% in April to 62% in August while costing less than 4% of enterprise AI budgets—applies additional pressure. Analysts suggest the sudden appearance of Marshmallow and Melon may be an urgent move by Anthropic to address this gap in its lineup. The goal is to offer models that are not only powerful but also cost-effective enough for businesses to adopt widely and sustainably, moving beyond a flagship that serves more as a showcase than a workhorse.

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Anthropic's New Models 'Catch the Gossip', The Strongest Fable 5 Unexpectedly Falls Flat

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GPT-5.6 Sol Major Price Cut: OpenAI Brings Price War to Its Flagship Model

OpenAI has slashed the API pricing for its flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol by over 20%, effective immediately. Input token costs dropped from $5 to $4 per million, while output tokens saw a more significant 33% reduction from $30 to $20 per million. This makes high-volume API users, especially those with output-heavy workloads like code generation, the biggest beneficiaries, with potential savings exceeding 30%. The price cut applies to API and credit-based usage, but subscription plans (Pro, Plus, Business) and their included allowances remain unchanged. OpenAI attributes the降价 to improved model efficiency and infrastructure scale, citing a 20% reduction in end-to-end service costs. Industry analysts view this move as a strategic play in the competitive AI landscape. It is seen as direct pressure on rival Anthropic, which is currently in its IPO roadshow phase aiming for a late 2024 listing. Simultaneously, it serves as a defensive response against aggressively priced models from Chinese competitors like DeepSeek. In related news, OpenAI's coding assistant Codex surpassed 20 million weekly active users. To mark the milestone, users received a one-time credit reset. The company also clarified policies against reselling or sharing subscription API quotas.

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GPT-5.6 Sol Major Price Cut: OpenAI Brings Price War to Its Flagship Model

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Google's TPU Father Snatched by Anthropic Overnight

Former Google executive Amir Salek, known as the "father of the TPU," has joined AI startup Anthropic to lead its newly formed custom silicon division. This major hire signals Anthropic's push to develop its own specialized AI chips, aiming to reduce reliance on costly Nvidia GPUs and optimize hardware specifically for its Claude models. Salek, who oversaw the development of Google's first seven generations of Tensor Processing Units, brings deep expertise in chip architecture and business strategy. Anthropic is aggressively building its in-house hardware capabilities. Earlier this year, the company also recruited Clive Chan, a core engineer from OpenAI's secretive internal chip project "Jalapeno." This move combines talent from both Google's and OpenAI's chip programs. The motivation behind this strategy is to control soaring compute costs—Anthropic's 2026 compute spending is estimated at $19 billion—and to achieve better performance through co-designing models and hardware. Beyond internal development, Anthropic is also securing future supply by placing a $250 million pre-order with UK AI chip startup Fractile and making infrastructure deals to secure data center capacity and power. The competition among AI giants is now extending from software algorithms to the foundational silicon layer, with the goal of gaining a decisive edge in efficiency and cost for the race toward AGI.

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Google's TPU Father Snatched by Anthropic Overnight

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Just Now, The World's First Human vs. Robot Tennis Match Begins, Robot's Desperate Save Leaves Zheng Jie Astonished

Just now, the world's first human vs. robot tennis match began, featuring stunning robotic saves that left tennis star Zheng Jie in awe. This historic event, part of the second World Humanoid Robot Games and broadcast live globally by China Media Group, marked a pivotal moment in Chinese technological innovation and embodied artificial intelligence. The match featured both mixed human-robot doubles and a groundbreaking singles match between Zheng Jie and the "Galaxy Xingzai" humanoid robot developed by Galaxy General. The robot demonstrated impressive skills including serving, forehands, backhands, and strategic court movement, with serves exceeding 100 km/h. It exhibited remarkable adaptability, recovering from a fall to continue play and handling slices and spins. The doubles match highlighted its ability to coordinate dynamically with a human partner. The event's significance extends far beyond a novelty match. Tennis represents an ultimate pressure test for embodied AI, demanding real-time integration of perception, decision-making, full-body motion control, and live博弈 within fractions of a second—a stark contrast to the discrete, contemplative environment of board games like Go mastered by AlphaGo. It directly confronts Moravec's paradox, showcasing AI's move from digital cognition to physical execution. This capability is powered by Galaxy General's proprietary "Galaxy Star Brain" (AstraBrain) model. Its key innovation is a unified architecture that integrates high-level task understanding/tactical decision-making ("brain") and dynamic whole-body motion control ("cerebellum") into a single model, eliminating latency and information loss between separate modules. The model was trained using a two-step process via the "Galaxy Star Workshop" platform. First, it learned foundational movement priors from "imperfect" human motion data (both amateur and professional). Second, it underwent massive-scale evolution in a virtual tennis simulator where multiple AI agents played millions of games against each other. Through this adversarial training, skills like极限救球and recovery from falls emerged autonomously without explicit programming, before being transferred to the physical robot. This "AstraTennis" moment symbolizes a major leap: a decade after AlphaGo conquered the digital world, embodied AI from China has now demonstrated it can operate under the extreme, unpredictable physical pressures of real-world competition.

marsbit2 giorni fa 01:36

Just Now, The World's First Human vs. Robot Tennis Match Begins, Robot's Desperate Save Leaves Zheng Jie Astonished

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Changes in reward and commission systems on cryptocurrency exchanges should be expected due to strategy shifts

As the bear market continued in Q2, leading crypto exchanges Coinbase, Bullish, and Gemini reported declines in trading revenue. In response, they are shifting strategies toward newer products like stablecoins and prediction markets, which is expected to change their reward and commission structures. Coinbase is focusing on its USD Coin (USDC) offerings, with average balances surging 44% to $20 billion, and has cut costs to fund increased USDC rewards. Gemini is tripling down on prediction markets, adding market makers and offering user rebates, though related revenue grew only 18% despite a near-doubling in bets. Bullish, targeting professional traders, launched a new rewards program. While its adjusted transaction revenue fell 21% quarterly, it was still up 24% year-over-year—the only exchange of the three to achieve annual growth. Despite falling trading volumes, commission economics improved for some, like Gemini, even as its overall revenue dropped. If the crypto price rally continues and ends the bear market, trading revenues could recover. However, as exchanges try to reduce dependence on market volatility, users can expect more rewards and incentives for using new products. Competition over fees may also intensify. The blurring lines between crypto and traditional finance platforms could further drive this competition, potentially benefiting retail traders and investors.

cryptonews.ru2 giorni fa 17:47

Changes in reward and commission systems on cryptocurrency exchanges should be expected due to strategy shifts

cryptonews.ru2 giorni fa 17:47

Goldman Sachs' Summary After Silicon Valley Investigation: Agents Enter the Execution Era, AI Competition Shifts to Workflows, World Models Rise

Based on a recent field research in Silicon Valley, Goldman Sachs highlights a key shift in the AI industry: moving from systems that "answer questions" to autonomous AI agents that "execute tasks." Commercial models are transitioning from per-seat subscriptions to usage- and outcome-based pricing. The competition is shifting from raw model capability to mastery over specific business workflows, with value accruing to proprietary data, domain context, and operational expertise. A major hurdle for enterprise Agent deployment is not technical ability but "controllability"—issues of accountability, auditability, and error correction, especially in regulated fields. Workflows with clear rules, verifiable outcomes, and reversible actions (e.g., invoice processing) are being automated first. The model landscape is evolving toward a division of labor. Frontier models (like GPT-4) are expected to handle high-value, high-reliability core tasks, while improving open-source models will likely capture the majority (~90%) of inference tokens for standardized, high-volume tasks due to cost advantages. Finally, attention is moving from Large Language Models (LLMs) to "World Models," which understand physical environments, causality, and dynamic interactions. This shift elevates the importance of proprietary, real-world data (from industrial, scientific, and robotic systems) and could drive a second wave of compute demand. Goldman Sachs projects compute needs could grow ~24x over five years, benefiting cloud and infrastructure providers.

marsbit2 giorni fa 15:41

Goldman Sachs' Summary After Silicon Valley Investigation: Agents Enter the Execution Era, AI Competition Shifts to Workflows, World Models Rise

marsbit2 giorni fa 15:41

Flowra Launches Open Orderflow Auction for Solana Block Building

Solana's block building and MEV landscape is seeing a significant shift with Flowra's launch of the Open Orderflow Auction (OOA). This new system aims to decentralize transaction ordering, which is currently concentrated, by replacing reliance on private channels with an open auction where registered searchers compete. The goal is to improve competition and price discovery, allowing validators to capture more value from MEV. Early tests showed positive outcomes, including a 20.6% increase in compute units per block for one validator and reports of higher fees and robust uptime. Flowra also introduced a Programmable Block Policy, giving validators greater control over transaction inclusion for compliance needs, and partnered with Honeypot for sanctions screening. Inspired by Ethereum's successful model, Flowra believes Solana's high throughput is well-suited for open block-building auctions. The system is now available, with an institutional onboarding phase underway ahead of a broader rollout.

TheNewsCrypto08/21 14:51

Flowra Launches Open Orderflow Auction for Solana Block Building

TheNewsCrypto08/21 14:51

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