OpenAI reportedly raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation
Bloomberg reported on 6 November 2026 that OpenAI had raised $11 billion so far in an unclosed round valuing it at $1.25 trillion, below the $30 billion it reportedly sought.
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Agility Robotics to go public through a SPAC merger
Agility Robotics announced it will go public through a SPAC merger, raising $465 million as it works to commercialize Digit robots and launch the next-generation Digit 5.
SenseTime launches SenseNova 6.8 Flash
On 5 November 2026 SenseTime announced the official version of SenseNova 6.8 Flash, a multimodal agent model for office and design work that offers free trial access.
Fal doubles its valuation to $16B on $1.3B round
Fal, a startup that hosts and runs AI video, image and audio models, raised $1.3 billion at a $16 billion valuation, double its valuation from earlier in the year.
Six AGIBOT G2 robots run a 24-hour convenience store trial
Six AGIBOT G2 wheeled humanoid robots worked a 24-hour shift in an operating Shanghai convenience store, completing 1,730 tasks on a livestream, with four of the six passing the final assessment.
Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum in a $115B all-stock deal
Marvell agreed on 2 November 2026 to buy optical chip and networking equipment maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at $115 billion including debt, one of the largest technology acquisitions on record.
AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026
AGIBOT's Innovation Day 2026 in Shanghai on 29 October 2026 introduced the Worken output metric, the AHA3 humanoid hardware architecture, the G2 Max industrial robot, Link-U OS 1.0, the GO-3 Preview and the WITA-Omni interaction model.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary 2
On 28 October 2026 Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight, free speech recognition model covering up to 40 languages, alongside the second version of its Granary speech dataset.
Liquid AI adds an omni-modal model to the LFM3 family
On 21 October 2026 Liquid AI released LFM3-Omni-2B, the first omni-modal model in its LFM3 family, taking text, images, video and audio as input and returning text or speech. At 2.17B parameters it targets phones and laptops.
DeepSeek updates V4.1-Flash and opens its Search and Fetch APIs
On 17 October 2026 DeepSeek shipped DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an update to its smallest model with better benchmarks, faster task completion and shorter outputs; its weights were published and its Search and Fetch APIs opened at $0.75 per 1,000 calls.
Kuaishou rolls out Kling 4.0
On 15 October 2026 Kuaishou's video generation model Kling 4.0 became available to all users, adding longer shots, more dynamic motion and Omni Reference, with a faster Flash variant released alongside it.
Physical Intelligence opens the Pi API beta
On 13 October 2026, Physical Intelligence opened a beta of the Pi API, a service that lets customers upload their own robot data, fine-tune the company's models and run cloud-hosted inference on their own machines.
Mistral AI unveils Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter open-weight model
On 6 October 2026 Mistral AI opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a model with about 1 trillion total parameters. On 29 October 2026 it released open weights of an improved version.
Waymo announces its first Canadian service, in Toronto
Waymo said it will launch its autonomous ride service in Toronto, its first Canadian city, with the first passengers planned for 2028.
MiniMax releases MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
MiniMax posted the weights of M3.1-Flash to Hugging Face on 17 October 2026. The model is a multimodal M3-line release with about 428 billion parameters, MiniMax Sparse Attention throughout, and DSpark speculative decoding.
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay 2026
On 29 September 2026 OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol at its DevDay developer event, saying it nearly matched GPT-6 Astra at lower cost. A planned Astra release was withheld over safety results, and GPT-6.1 Terra followed in October.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with a causal encoder–decoder design
On 10 September 2026 DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, a multimodal model with a causal encoder-decoder design that splits its active parameters between reading input and writing output. Its KV cache is much smaller than that of the previous generation.
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
On 3 September 2026 Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face said it would remain an open platform, and the deal was expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval.
SenseTime releases SenseNova U1.5 with native 4K generation
On 20 August 2026 SenseTime released SenseNova U1.5-8B-MoT, an open-weight model that generates images natively up to 4096x4096 pixels, after a preview in July.
Unitree lists on the STAR Market
Unitree, the Hangzhou robot maker, listed on Shanghai's STAR Market on 19 August 2026 at 150.80 yuan per share, opening its first trading day 629.44% higher and valuing the company at 444.9 billion yuan.
DeepSeek-V4-Pro reaches general availability
On 13 August 2026 DeepSeek launched the general-availability version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, with agent upgrades, adjustable reasoning effort, OpenAI Responses API support and peak and off-peak API pricing.