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Momenta began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's main board on 8 July 2026, opening more than 6 percent above its issue price and passing a market value of 70 billion Hong Kong dollars on its first day.
On 28 October 2025 OpenAI completed a recapitalisation that turned its for-profit arm into OpenAI Group PBC, a public benefit corporation, and renamed the nonprofit the OpenAI Foundation.
The 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games opened at Beijing's Ice Ribbon on 14 August 2025, bringing hundreds of humanoid robots and teams from more than a dozen countries into competition across athletic, performance and workplace-style scenario events.
In July 2025 Unitree began IPO coaching with CITIC Securities and said it expected to file listing documents between October and December, against 2024 sales of 23,700 quadruped robots and 1,500 humanoid robots.
On 11 June 2025 Mistral AI announced Mistral Compute, an AI infrastructure offering that sells GPUs, orchestration, APIs and services as bare metal or managed PaaS, built with NVIDIA hardware and reference architectures.
On 27 April 2025, trucks running on Aurora's self-driving system began regular driverless commercial hauls for Uber Freight and Hirschbach between Dallas and Houston, with no one in the cab and no police escort.
In April 2025 twenty humanoid robot teams raced a half marathon in Beijing on the same 21.0975 km course used by human runners. Tiangong Ultra won in 2 hours 40 minutes 42 seconds.
In December 2024 Meta announced a 4-million-square-foot, $10 billion-plus data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, its 23rd US data center, built to train future open-source large language models and later expanded substantially.
xAI's Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, built with NVIDIA, went into operation in 2024 with about 100,000 H100 GPUs. It was the main training system behind Grok.
On August 13, 2024, OpenAI released SWE-bench Verified, a 500-sample human-validated subset of SWE-bench built with the benchmark's original authors from Princeton, after filtering ambiguous tasks and unreliable tests.
An IMF staff analysis published in January 2024 estimated that almost 40 percent of global employment is exposed to AI, with effects uneven across income levels and a risk of widening inequality.
UBTECH, a Chinese robot maker founded in 2012, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange main board on 29 December 2023 at HK$90 per share; the company calls itself the first humanoid robot company on the exchange.
A Goldman Sachs research note published in March 2023 estimated that generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation and add 7% to global GDP over a decade.
On 28 July 2022, DeepMind and EMBL-EBI expanded the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database from nearly 1 million to over 200 million predicted protein structures, covering nearly all catalogued proteins known to science.
Honda's humanoid robot ASIMO formally retired on 31 March 2022, after a final demonstration at Honda's Tokyo headquarters; Honda said it would focus on remotely controlled avatar robots instead.
In December 2016 Alphabet spun its self-driving car project out into a separate company, Waymo, turning a long-running research effort into a business that supplies self-driving technology rather than cars.
Toyota announced in November 2015 that it would create the Toyota Research Institute, a separately incorporated artificial intelligence research company, with $1 billion over five years and former DARPA programme manager Gill Pratt as chief executive.
NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the floor of Gale Crater on 6 August 2012 Universal Time, lowered on a tether by a rocket-powered descent stage that then cut the cords and flew off to a controlled crash.
On 7 May 2012 Nevada's DMV issued the first US licence for an autonomous vehicle, a Toyota Prius fitted with Google's self-driving technology, after tests on highways, Carson City streets and the Las Vegas Strip.
On 10 April 2012 DARPA announced a challenge to build ground robots that can carry out complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-built environments, backing it with a $2 million prize and a list of tasks from driving a vehicle to closing a valve.
In 2011 Microsoft Research reported that modelling thousands of senones with deep neural networks, trained on GPUs, sharply cut word errors compared with conventional Gaussian-mixture systems in large-vocabulary speech recognition.
