DeepSeek open-sourced its internal inference framework DeepInfer on October 20. According to the official technical report, a single cluster serves a daily throughput of 155 trillion Tokens, and at valley prices the overall revenue is $38 per card per hour.
Musk confirmed at SpaceX's Q3 earnings call that SpaceX and Tesla have each formed special committees to discuss a merger, and the deal would ultimately require shareholder approval. SpaceX's Q3 revenue rose 161% year over year to $14.58 billion, with net profit of $4.4 billion. Its AI business revenue grew to $7.56 billion, nearly 10 times the year-earlier level, becoming its largest revenue source, mainly from renting data center compute to customers including Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI.
NVIDIA engineers used a Megakernel written in 12,000 lines of CuTe DSL to optimize decoding inference for Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model Kimi K3, raising speed to 423 tok/s/user (1.68x) on GB300 NVL72. Apple announced it will release new products for four consecutive weeks from October 23 to November 13, including a $299 HomeView smart display, which Bloomberg says lays the groundwork for a 2027 desktop robot. Anthropic announced the establishment of a public interest fund, planning to contribute 5% of the company's shares.
Jiazzi Guangnian announced that the 2026 Jiazzi Gravity Annual Gala will open on December 1 under the theme of AI's "Second Prologue," bringing together leading scientists, technology entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and investors. Zhang Yijia, founder and CEO of Jiazzi Guangnian, will release the annual report "Opening the 'Second Prologue': 30 Judgments on AI in 2026." The conference will feature five sub-venues. The event will also reveal the "Jiazzi 100 List" and the "2026 China Technology Industry Investment List," covering 7 major fields and including 15 sub-lists for investment institutions and investors.
TypeSafe AI's decision model Jev went viral within weeks of launch, and the company completed a funding round of about $870 million led by a16z at a $7.5 billion valuation with a team of only 20 people. Apple reached an acqui-hire agreement with Huxe, an AI audio startup founded by former Google NotebookLM team members, bringing in employees and obtaining a technology license without purchasing the company's business; the amount was not disclosed.
Robot vacuums began with random-collision cleaning in the 1990s, and domestic manufacturers moved from imitation to independent innovation. Since 2016, China has seen a wave of technological innovation, with domestic brands such as Ecovacs, Xiaomi, Midea, Roborock, Haier, and Narwal winning consumer recognition through innovative designs and performance, and entering the high-end market to compete with international brands. Domestic robot vacuums adapt to the Chinese market with extremely high cost-effectiveness, and in the future may expand to urban road cleaning; products are already deployed for urban cleaning in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.