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What Happened Alibaba says its open-weight AI models have crossed 3 billion global downloads in the past six months, putting them ahead of Meta, Google, and other Chinese competitors. That makes Qwen the world’s most-downloaded AI model fam
What Happened Z.ai, also known as Zhipu, is set to upgrade its flagship AI model to GLM-5.3, adding to a series of Chinese open-weight offerings seeking to outcompete Anthropic and OpenAI. The company says the new version brings improved co
What Happened SpaceX finalized its acquisition of Anysphere, the developer of the AI coding tool Cursor, in an all-stock transaction valued at $60 billion, confirmed through an SEC Form 8-K. The deal issued roughly 391 million SpaceX Class
What Happened Meta launched Glimmer this week, an open weight AI model that anyone can download and run on their own hardware. TechCrunch’s Equity hosts unpacked the move alongside Mark Zuckerberg’s letter on making AI available to everyone
What Happened OpenAI rolled out Ultrafast, a new mode designed to accelerate how quickly its latest and most powerful model, GPT-5.6 Sol, does its work. The company says it can run at 14x the speed of standard processing, delivering up to 7
What Happened Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published research on Thursday examining how groups of AI agents behave when they encounter one another autonomously across shared codebases, markets, and computer systems. The findings preview ri
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Funding tracked
$99B
Funded companies
221
Tools tracked
573
Monthly traffic
29.6M
Recent funding
Synthreo
Seed · Jul 2026
Tonkean
Merger / Acquisition · May 2026
Cognition
Venture (Round not Specified) · May 2026
Lambda
Debt Financing · May 2026
Factory
Series C · Apr 2026
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