https://megadose.ai/i/3ce89a2b-acfc-4558-9771-0d5dc79d837b Megadose en 2026-08-24T10:10:00+00:00 Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures at a $6.3B valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba participating (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/d90a6c66-d49a-4789-90eb-1e612e5697e7 Megadose en 2026-08-24T10:01:28+00:00 Alibaba launches Wan3.0, a video generation model that can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/416ab232-b0fa-422e-a1c0-9395a490cacb Megadose en 2026-08-24T04:15:47+00:00 Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang (Ina Fried/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/0d534fca-5bf7-4598-8dc5-b0f8d6703f47 Megadose en 2026-08-24T03:50:00+00:00 Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity valuing it at $30B+, after weighing a tech licensing deal and staff hires, as Perplexity hits $750M+ in ARR (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/83c7829b-9893-4433-b9d8-c045d936fd31 Megadose en 2026-08-24T02:20:01+00:00 SoftBank plans a $6.3B retail bond sale, a record for any Japanese issuer and its third this year, as the conglomerate raises funds for its OpenAI commitments (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/6f3e1aaa-fd06-42e2-b0eb-7209c5c87b1f Megadose en 2026-08-23T20:24:52+00:00 Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive https://megadose.ai/i/9935d408-5c28-4f28-914a-b05bd5cb5304 Megadose en 2026-08-23T19:20:01+00:00 Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest (Katie Roof/Business Insider) https://megadose.ai/i/0b9b4ff8-d3d4-4ddb-bafa-955a3c8f4af3 Megadose en 2026-08-23T15:50:02+00:00 Alibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/a1650874-7f0d-4f11-a58c-672f477420e5 Megadose en 2026-08-23T03:30:01+00:00 Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/353166f0-d357-4557-a298-39dee7767e4d Megadose en 2026-08-22T20:00:13+00:00 London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings (Anna Heim/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/08a5931e-7cfa-4b77-8e42-bb8685f7e0b9 Megadose en 2026-08-22T19:00:01+00:00 Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027 (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/4fa5f874-80d1-46a9-8bb1-3e720157cbb5 Megadose en 2026-08-22T19:00:00+00:00 Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research https://megadose.ai/i/5f4bf038-6c52-4b21-8c22-729d4ba2deaf Megadose en 2026-08-22T14:35:02+00:00 Ox Alpha, a "stealth model" from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter (Rohail Saleem/Wccftech)