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Thu, Aug 27
Nvidia Reportedly to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion; Neither Side Confirms
What Nvidia is buying is not a hosting company with revenues just over $100 million, but the gateway through which the world's open-source models enter production.
Mon, Aug 24
Alibaba raises $10 billion via share placement, all earmarked for full-stack AI from chips to models
Net profit plunges 75% while Alibaba raises $10 billion for AI — a timetable with no room for retreat.
Mon, Aug 17
Duan Yongping's Q2 Holdings Reach $19.101 Billion: New Alibaba Position, Nvidia Cut by More Than Half
In the same filing, he sold the shovel-sellers of compute and bought China's e-commerce — that combination is itself a judgment.
Mon, Aug 10
DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 Third-Party Evaluation: Only 13B Active Parameters, Agent Scores Surpass Its Own Pro Version
Rerunning post-training once can outpace the premium version, suggesting the bar for agent capability is shifting from "stacking parameters" to "refining the recipe" — precisely the stretch where the open-source camp is closing ground fastest.
Wed, Aug 5
Google leads ~$200 billion financing package to procure over $150 billion of self-developed TPUs for Anthropic
For the first time, the chip competition has moved from the specs sheet to the interest-rate sheet.