Kunlunxin starts STAR Market IPO guidance
In May 2026 Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin began IPO guidance for China's STAR Market while keeping its Hong Kong plan, as revenue grows and losses narrow toward break-even.
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Biren lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Biren Technology listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's main board on 2 January 2026, drawing 23 cornerstone investors to its share offering, with its market value briefly passing HK$100 billion on the first trading day.
TSMC CoWoS packaging stays sold out as AI demand outruns capacity
TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging places logic dies and HBM stacks on a silicon interposer; capacity remains sold out, and TSMC is expanding in Tainan and Chiayi while developing panel-level CoPoS.
Cambricon MLU 690 enters mass production
Cambricon's next flagship cloud training chip, the MLU 690, entered mass production in early 2026, pairing a dual-die package with more than 700 TFLOPS of FP16 compute and 196 GB of HBM3 memory.
Moore Threads and MetaX list on the STAR Market
In December 2025, Chinese GPU makers Moore Threads and MetaX listed on the STAR Market, with first-day gains that drew attention to domestic AI chip companies raising public capital.
Nvidia becomes the first company worth $5 trillion
On 29 October 2025 Nvidia became the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market value, closing at $207.04 a share after a rally driven by large AI chip orders.
Mistral AI announces Mistral Compute with NVIDIA
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.
Meta announces its largest data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana (Hyperion)
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.
Horizon Robotics lists in Hong Kong in the year's largest tech IPO there
Horizon Robotics, a Chinese supplier of smart-driving solutions founded in 2015, began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 24 October 2024, raising HK$5.407 billion in what was the city's largest technology IPO that year.
xAI brings its Colossus supercomputer online in Memphis
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.
OpenAI releases SWE-bench Verified
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.
Nvidia's market value breaks $3 trillion
On 5 June 2024 Nvidia's market value passed $3 trillion, making it the third company to reach that level after Microsoft and Apple; two weeks later it became the world's most valuable company, driven by demand for data-center AI chips.
IMF analysis finds almost 40% of global employment exposed to AI
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.
Nvidia becomes the first chip company worth $1 trillion
On 30 May 2023 Nvidia became the first chip company on the US stock market to pass a $1 trillion market value, as demand for the GPUs used to train large AI models surged after ChatGPT.
Goldman Sachs report: generative AI could expose 300 million full-time jobs
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.
Mobileye returns to public markets on Nasdaq
Mobileye priced its Nasdaq initial public offering at 21 dollars a share and sold 41 million Class A shares, with a large part of the proceeds earmarked to repay a note owed to parent company Intel.
AlphaFold database expands to over 200 million protein structures
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.
NVIDIA delivers the first DGX-1 to OpenAI
In August 2016 NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang hand-delivered the first DGX-1, a turnkey eight-GPU deep learning machine, to OpenAI in San Francisco — an early piece of dedicated AI hardware at a young research lab.
Nevada issues the first US autonomous vehicle licence
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.
Microsoft Research's deep-neural-network speech recognition breakthrough
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.
Judea Pearl receives the 2011 ACM Turing Award
In 2011 ACM gave Judea Pearl the A.M. Turing Award for a calculus of probabilistic and causal reasoning, work that began with his invention of Bayesian networks and later produced the do-calculus for causal inference.