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OpenAI reportedly executed a $1B deal involving Disney, catching the company off guard. The 'blindside' suggests an unexpected strategic move by OpenAI. A plus note highlights Perplexity's new tool for building travel itineraries.
Weibo has partnered with Baidu AI Cloud’s DuClaw to expand its AI agent ecosystem. The integration enhances personalized content creation and real-time trend analysis on the platform.
HiDream.ai and Noitom Robotics announced a strategic partnership to generate scalable, high-quality embodied intelligent video data. They combine Noitom's precise motion capture with HiDream's controllable video generation to produce tens of thousands of hours of training data this year. This addresses critical multimodal data bottlenecks in embodied AI.
Google is close to finalizing a deal to provide financing support for billions in data centers leased to Anthropic. This bolsters Anthropic's AI infrastructure amid booming compute demands. Reported by Financial Times via 36Kr.
Pony.ai partnered with Verne and Uber to launch commercial Robotaxi in Zagreb, Croatia on April 8. This is Europe's first public-facing Robotaxi service. It advances Pony.ai's global expansion strategy.
Pony.ai gains major backing from Tencent in a strategic partnership. Tencent's 900 million user traffic aims to propel autonomous driving efforts forward.
Rivian and Uber have partnered for Rivian to supply 50,000 R2 robotaxis worth $1.25B, starting with 10,000 units in San Francisco and Miami by 2028. Uber committed $300M initially, with expansion to 40,000 more by 2030 across 25 cities by 2031. The deal drove a 4-10% surge in Rivian's stock.
NIO spun off its chip unit into Shenji Tech amid cost controls, achieving Q4 2025 profitability. Partnered with Aixin Yuan Zhi on M97 ADAS chip (700+ TOPS, rivals Horizon J6P), which taped out successfully and is pitching to Leapmotor, Geely. Planning low-end 9031e chip matching J6M.
Samsung Electronics and AMD signed an MOU to deepen AI infrastructure memory cooperation. Samsung will supply next-gen HBM4 for AMD's Instinct MI455X AI accelerator and optimized DDR5 for sixth-gen EPYC processors. They are also exploring wafer foundry partnerships.
OpenAI signed a new contract with AWS to provide AI services to US government staff for both classified and non-classified work. The agreement supports the US Department of Defense. This follows the DoD's recent abandonment of Anthropic.