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Also, a micromobility startup spun out of Rivian, has raised $150 million in a Series D round at a valuation above $1 billion. Although it currently focuses on e-bikes, the company says its larger goal is developing small autonomous vehicles.
A builder reports running DeepSeek V4 Flash-0731 at roughly 130–150 tokens per second using 16 RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPUs connected through two PLX PEX88096 switch islands. The configuration supports up to 500,000-token context with tensor parallelism 8 and up to 1 million tokens with tensor parallelism 4.
Kling AI generated more than RMB 850 million in Q2 revenue, up 240% year over year, making it the standout growth driver in Kuaishou’s otherwise slowing business. Kuaishou is prioritizing AI investment, spinning Kling AI out for independent financing at an implied valuation of US$18 billion despite near-term profit pressure.
Google reportedly bid $10 million for Spirit Airlines’ internal enterprise data, including approximately 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, in a bankruptcy asset auction. The deal signals the emergence of a market for acquiring sanitized corporate communications and work records to train AI systems and enterprise agents.
A hyper-optimized Qwen3.8-27B inference stack using DFlash2 reaches about 138 tokens per second on a power-limited RTX 3090, while 64-request throughput reaches 942 TPS. Prefix caching also reduces long-chat follow-up latency from roughly 23 seconds to under 1.4 seconds in reported tests.
Kuaishou is spinning out its Kling AI video-generation model into a separately financed company, attracting investment from Tencent, Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, and other institutions at an implied valuation of $18 billion. Kling has surpassed 100 million global users and nearly 50,000 enterprise customers, but continues to generate substantial losses because of compute costs.
An independent builder pretrained a 1.02-billion-parameter Kimi-K3 replica on 5 billion decontaminated tokens for roughly $250. The model achieved 33.4% on HellaSwag, exceeding the reported 28% score of GPT-2 124M despite receiving no instruction tuning.
Odense-based startup Velatir has raised €5 million in seed funding six months after its pre-seed round. The company provides visibility and control over the AI tools employees are already using, with Spintop Ventures and Ugly Duckling Ventures co-leading the round.
Kuaishou’s Kling AI video-generation business generated more than RMB850 million in second-quarter revenue. Revenue rose over 200% year on year and 30% quarter on quarter, reaching RMB1.5 billion in the first half of the year.
A position paper analyzing 500 Hugging Face model cards argues that model cards alone do not provide enough information for governing open-weight foundation models. It proposes combining model cards with acceptable use policies and licenses to address safety, provenance, behavior, and enforcement gaps.