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1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

OpenAI has announced the general availability of its frontier models and Codex on AWS, allowing enterprises to leverage these models within their existing environments. Customers can now start using OpenAI on AWS, facilitating a faster transition from evaluation to production. This move is significant as it provides enterprises with access to advanced tools within the AWS ecosystem, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing technical transition complexities. This collaboration allows users to benefit from familiar controls and procurement workflows.

Business

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

Anthropic could reach $1 trillion valuation

Anthropic raised $65 billion in its latest funding round, boosting its valuation to $965 billion, surpassing OpenAI. The company plans to use the funds to enhance safety and interpretability research, expand compute capabilities, and scale its AI assistant Claude. This funding round reflects the broader trend of significant investments in AI firms, with Claude's revenue now exceeding $47 billion, indicating its growing market success.

Infrastructure

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

Samsung begins distributing its latest HBM units

Samsung Electronics has started distributing its latest high bandwidth memory (HBM) units to selected customers. The 12-layer HBM4E unit claims to achieve transfer speeds of up to 16Gb/s, enhancing computing performance for large language models and next-gen AI systems. This release follows the mass production and commercial shipment of its HBM4 earlier this year. The new product provides a stable pin speed of 14Gb/s, a 20% increase over the previous generation, addressing the growing data processing demands.

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Models

MiniMax Launches M3 Model With 1M Context and Native Multimodal Capabilities

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

Models

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

MiniMax Launches M3 Model With 1M Context and Native Multimodal Capabilities

MiniMax (Shanghai Hixi Technology) launched its M3 model on June 1, 2026, as the first domestic AI model integrating advanced coding and agentic capabilities. The M3 supports up to one million tokens of context, making it suitable for long-range tasks and video understanding. Built on MiniMax's Sparse Attention architecture, M3 achieved leading performance in coding benchmarks, scoring 83.5 in the BrowseComp benchmark, surpassing OpenAI's Opus 4.7. It demonstrated autonomous capabilities by reproducing an outstanding ICLR 2025 paper independently.

Business

OmAI Launches OttoBox AI Video Creation Assistant at BEYOND Expo 2026

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

Business

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

OmAI Launches OttoBox AI Video Creation Assistant at BEYOND Expo 2026

LINKER Technology launched its AI-native video creation assistant, OttoBox, at the BEYOND Expo 2026 in Macau. The product utilizes the company's OmModel, a self-developed multimodal large model, featuring three core functions: AI Drive, AI Finder, and AI Agent. AI Drive allows one-click import of all media formats, performing OCR, ASR, and shot segmentation locally, ensuring data privacy.

Business

iRegene Therapeutics Raises 210M Yuan in Series C1 for AI-Powered Cell Therapy Platform

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

Business

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

iRegene Therapeutics Raises 210M Yuan in Series C1 for AI-Powered Cell Therapy Platform

iRegene Therapeutics has successfully completed a Series C1 financing round, raising 210 million yuan ($29 million). This funding, co-led by Guanghe Capital and Xingze Capital, will enhance the company's clinical pipeline and upgrade its AI-driven platform. The funds will also support scaled manufacturing capabilities and international partnerships, crucial for advancing its product offerings. iRegene's proprietary platform addresses key challenges in traditional cell therapy manufacturing, enabling efficient production of functional cells.

Infrastructure

NVIDIA AI Cloud Ecosystem Expands Worldwide to Meet Global AI Compute Demand

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

Infrastructure

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

NVIDIA AI Cloud Ecosystem Expands Worldwide to Meet Global AI Compute Demand

NVIDIA's cloud system is rapidly constructing smart factory infrastructure globally, with partners expanding to meet the rising demand from enterprises and startups. This system aims to support intelligent applications by providing new regional capacity, enhancing partners' ability to offer advanced services in training, modification, and smart applications. NVIDIA's smart cloud incorporates integrated infrastructure that combines accelerated computing, networking, and intelligent software, enabling partners to support intelligent applications on a large scale.

Agents

NVIDIA Factory Operations Blueprint Gives Factories a New AI Brain

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

Agents

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

NVIDIA Factory Operations Blueprint Gives Factories a New AI Brain

At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA unveiled the Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX), a reference design for autonomous factory management. This blueprint connects live machine signals, quality systems, and operational alerts into a unified decision layer. FOX enables developers to create secure, centralized factory manager agents that optimize industrial AI agents for quality control, material transport, and worker safety. Built with NVIDIA NemoClaw and AI-Q Blueprint, it offers a customizable foundation for connecting factory systems and automating model development.

Business

Taiwan’s Industry Titans Turbocharge World’s AI Infrastructure Buildout With NVIDIA

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

Business

1 Jun 202616 Dhuʻl-Hijjah 1447 AH

Taiwan’s Industry Titans Turbocharge World’s AI Infrastructure Buildout With NVIDIA

Taiwan is hosting over 500 partners in NVIDIA's ecosystem, with more than one million components from NVIDIA MGX supporting the Vera Rubin infrastructure. This partnership spans 25 manufacturing sites, showcasing the strength of the semiconductor supply chain. Partner companies are implementing accelerated computing and AI in their operations, creating a model for enhancing manufacturing speed and efficiency. TSMC utilizes NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries to optimize manufacturing processes, achieving cost-effectiveness improvements of 20-50%.