Tracking important developments across global AI, the new economy and industry services.
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is reportedly leaving to start an AI drug discovery startup, in talks to raise about $200 million at a $2 billion valuation, with Lightspeed in discussions to lead. The talks highlight investor interest in applying AI to life sciences.
At the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid, pop star Lorde criticized Meta's AI glasses, calling them 'not sexy' and urging people not to buy them. She noted that in a world where it's increasingly hard to know what's real, AI glasses exacerbate privacy concerns. Despite strong sales, Lorde's remarks reflect public concern over privacy.
Baijing Outbound will host the '2026 Magic City Going Global Carnival - Global Game Matchmaking Conference' in Shanghai on July 30, 2026, aiming to provide an efficient matchmaking platform for game developers, publishers, and investors. Highlights include 1-on-1 business meetings, showcasing potential hit games, industry insights from experts, and cross-border service booths. Registration has closed; the event is capped at 100 attendees.
Beijing released the Implementation Plan for Accelerating AI-Empowered Scientific Research (2026-2028), outlining 18 key tasks across five directions: autonomous labs, scientific models, data, scenarios, and ecosystem. The goal is to build a globally influential scientific intelligence innovation hub by 2028. The plan encourages 24/7 unmanned autonomous labs and AI scientists to automate the entire research process.
ByteDance's engine released its self-developed ad content governance model Mamoda 2.5, combining MoE architecture with DiT diffusion model for the first time, creating the industry's first DiT-MoE video generation foundation. The model provides end-to-end services from risk diagnosis to automatic material repair, helping businesses reduce compliance costs. The team revealed the model has 25 billion total parameters but activates only about 3 billion per inference, improving inference efficiency by 11-15 times.
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Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's net worth reached $36 billion, surpassing OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman to become the world's richest large model founder. According to Zhidongxi statistics, large models have created at least 36 billionaires with combined assets over $249.1 billion, spanning 17 companies including Zhipu and MiniMax from China.
