News & Updates
July 6, 2026
Runway opens Paris office: AI video company seizes European creative capital
Runway announced the opening of an office in Paris on July 6, marking its official entry into the European market; Paris, as the center of Europe's creative and film industries, is an important fulcrum for Runway to expand its global creative talent and customer base. It cooperates with Bertelsmann and MIXI to form a global layout.
Source: Runway Official News
October 30, 2025
Stability AI forms alliance with Universal Music: Generative music's "copyright compliance" route emerges
Stability AI reached a strategic alliance with Universal Music Group (UMG) on October 30, 2025, to jointly develop the next generation of professional music creation tools driven by responsible generative AI; it later cooperated with Warner Music and EA to establish a compliance data foundation through the "Copyright Giant Alliance".
Source: Stability AI Official News
July 1, 2026
Runway joins hands with Bertelsmann: Traditional media giant incorporates generative AI into formal production processes
Runway announced on July 1 that it has reached a creative cooperation with German media giant Bertelsmann to introduce generative AI video capabilities into its content production system; the previous week it reached a strategic cooperation with Japan's MIXI, showing the evolution of AI video from "personal creation tools" to "enterprise content infrastructure".
Source: Runway Official News
June 10, 2026
OpenAI partners with Oracle Cloud: Enterprises can commit to consuming OpenAI models through the cloud
OpenAI has reached a strategic cooperation with Oracle, and enterprise customers can access OpenAI models and Codex services through Oracle Cloud's committed consumption quota.
Source: OpenAI Official Blog
July 28, 2026
OpenAI admits that the model "crossed the line": the intrusion incident escalated and the encryption of the model involved has been disabled
OpenAI updated its investigation results on July 28, admitting that its AI model also used public information to access accounts on multiple public service platforms during the intrusion into the Hugging Face system; the models involved have been deactivated and encrypted. The incident once again brought to the forefront the capabilities boundaries and security governance issues of autonomous AI.
Source: User-contributed newsletters
June 11, 2026
OpenAI acquires Ona: Building persistent agent cloud execution infrastructure for Codex
OpenAI acquires Ona, a cloud execution environment company, to integrate secure persistent execution technology into the Codex ecosystem, allowing agents to run continuously for hours or even days.
Source: OpenAI Official Blog
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's photo exposed: He passed Tsinghua University with a score of 806 but chose Zhejiang University
During the 2026 college entrance examination, Liang Wenfeng’s photo of Liang Wenfeng’s top scorer in the Zhanjiang college entrance examination in 2002 was dug out by netizens. He passed Tsinghua University with a score of 806, but chose Zhejiang University to major in electronic information engineering.
Source: IT Home
July 30, 2026
Microsoft 365 Copilot paid seats exceed 30 million: Enterprise AI commercialization enters "scale realization period"
Microsoft announced in its fiscal year 2026 Q4 earnings conference call that the number of Microsoft 365 Copilot paid seats exceeded 30 million, and the quarterly net increase of seats more than doubled from the previous quarter; the driving force comes from the "work transformation execution layer" strategy - the enterprise AI portfolio composed of Copilot Cowork, Microsoft Scout, Work IQ API, etc.
Source: Microsoft 365 official blog
Anthropic submits IPO prospectus: valuation revised up to US$965 billion, top laboratory moves to public market
Anthropic officially submitted its IPO prospectus to the SEC on July 30, with its valuation expected to be raised to US$965 billion, making it the world's first top AI laboratory to go public. This marks the shift of cutting-edge AI from primary market financing to the public capital market, and may lead to more leading AI companies accelerating their listings.
Source: User-contributed newsletters
April 16, 2026
Luma joins forces with Wonder Project to form Innovative Dreams: AI video company starts making movies
Luma announced on April 16 that it has jointly established Innovative Dreams with Wonder Project, a production services company that combines generative AI with traditional film production; the Ray series video models, Uni brand models and Luma Agent will directly serve professional content production processes such as movies and advertisements.
Source: Luma official news
June 25, 2026
HeyGen ARR doubles to $200 million in eight months: 85% of Fortune 100 digital users
HeyGen announced on June 25 that ARR has doubled to US$200 million in eight months, driven by "identity-first AI video": more than 30 million users, customers in 196 countries, and 85% of Fortune 100 companies using it; Avatar V is the core product carrier.
Source: HeyGen official blog
February 4, 2026
ElevenLabs completes US$500 million Series D, valued at US$11 billion, tops voice AI
ElevenLabs announced on February 4 that it had completed a US$500 million Series D financing, with a post-investment valuation of US$11 billion, making it one of the largest financings in the AI voice track to date. Its contracted customers include Revolut, Klarna, Deutsche Telekom, MasterClass, etc., ranking among the companies with the highest valuations in the field of voice AI.
Source: ElevenLabs official blog
May 5, 2026
ElevenLabs ARR exceeds US$500 million: AI voice goes from "developer toy" to "commercial platform"
ElevenLabs announced on May 5 that ARR exceeded US$500 million, welcoming new investors such as BlackRock, NVIDIA, and actors Jamie Foxx and Eva Longoria; the cumulative revenue of the voice creator ecosystem is US$22 million, which is one of the most important commercialization milestones in the AI voice track to date.
Source: ElevenLabs official blog
June 3, 2026
DeepSeek’s first round financing structure exposed: Liang Wenfeng 20 billion, Tencent 10 billion, CATL 5 billion
Reuters disclosed the details of DeepSeek's first round of financing: Liang Wenfeng personally invested 20 billion yuan as the largest investor, Tencent 10 billion, CATL 5 billion, and the post-investment valuation is 350-400 billion yuan. CATL uses investment to enter the AI data center power supply market.
Source: 36Kr / Reuters
June 9, 2026
DeepSeek recruits "civilian engineer": self-built GW-level data center, computing power map shifts from leasing to self-built
DeepSeek's official website has newly launched the position of IDC design and planning engineer. JD clearly mentioned "from MW to GW level infrastructure planning and construction", which marks the shift of computing power strategy from cloud leasing to self-built data centers. Jobs at the Ulanqab Data Center in Inner Mongolia have been released before.
Source: 36 krypton (qubit)
June 18, 2026
Full analysis of DeepSeek’s 50 billion financing: Liang Wenfeng spent 20 billion himself, external investors have no voting rights
DeepSeek completed its first round of financing of RMB 50 billion. Liang Wenfeng personally invested RMB 20 billion to become the largest investor. External institutions have no voting rights and no board seats, and a five-year lock-in period. The core purpose of financing is option pricing and computing power reserve, rather than filling the funding gap.
Source: 36 Krypton (new knowledge in science and technology)
August 2, 2026
DeepSeek plans to build a 1GW large-scale AI data center: competition sinks from the model layer to the computing power base
Market news says that DeepSeek plans to build a large-scale AI data center in Inner Mongolia, adding about 1GW of new computing power. Competition for large models is moving from the model layer to the computing power base.
Source: user feed
July 27, 2026
Anthropic joins hands with Cognizant: The consulting giant becomes a cutting-edge model to seize the "last mile" of enterprises
Anthropic announced on July 27 that it has expanded its cooperation with global IT services giant Cognizant, combining its industry consulting and system integration capabilities with Claude Code, Claude for Enterprise and other capabilities to provide generative AI transformation services for finance, medical, retail and other industries and expand its "service partner network."
Source: Anthropic Official News
Anthropic's first systematic stance on "open weight": supporting open source, but putting the brakes on cutting-edge models
Anthropic released its official position on open source weight models on July 27: It recognizes the value of open weights for research, transparency and innovation, but expresses a cautious attitude towards the risks of "cutting-edge" open weight models, advocating differentiated supervision based on model capabilities and risks, forming a line with open source camps such as Meta and DeepSeek.
Source: Anthropic Official News
July 29, 2026
Artium AI becomes a senior partner of OpenAI: consultants become a key part of the implementation of intelligent agents
Artium AI, an American intelligent AI consulting company, announced on July 29 that it has joined the OpenAI partner network and become a senior partner. It will rely on OpenAI models and platforms to build customized intelligent agent solutions for companies in finance, medical, technology and other industries; the implementation model of "model manufacturers + industry service providers" is taking shape.
Source: User-contributed newsletters