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Free! OpenAI is giving away a year of ChatGPT Go to lure more India users Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
tinyurl.com/2psuwmza
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Free! OpenAI is giving away a year of ChatGPT Go to lure more India users Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
tinyurl.com/2psuwmza
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A deep dive into DeepSeek's surge in Africa! Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power (gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
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A deep dive into DeepSeek's surge in Africa! Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power (gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Emirates AI influential, billionaire Sheikh Tahnoon, designed his new seaside, Japanese-style Abu Dhabi mansion with 500 ChatGPT prompts & now plays host to AI founders like Sam Altman - as heard at Gitex 2025 by my Dubai colleague and I
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Emirates AI influential, billionaire Sheikh Tahnoon, designed his new seaside, Japanese-style Abu Dhabi mansion with 500 ChatGPT prompts & now plays host to AI founders like Sam Altman - as heard at Gitex 2025 by my Dubai colleague and I
@bloomberg.com
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bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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📢 📢 📢 A story I wrote with a bunch of talented Bloomberg colleagues -- on AI data centers devastating energy grids around the world -- is a Gerald Loeb Awards winner! Woohooo! Dont miss this read ! (Gift link: free to read until Oct 17)
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
@bloomberg.com
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AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems
New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-data-centers-power-grids/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MDA4NzE4OSwiZXhwIjoxNzYwNjkxOTg5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTRkZWRFNEV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.FFqQi3vXmupq2Ue8MI0maUxOvf1ZsQkiM_ty4MKwGI4
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📢 📢 📢 A story I wrote with a bunch of talented Bloomberg colleagues -- on AI data centers devastating energy grids around the world -- is a Gerald Loeb Awards winner! Woohooo! Dont miss this read ! (Gift link: free to read until Oct 17)
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
@bloomberg.com
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New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-data-centers-power-grids/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MDA4NzE4OSwiZXhwIjoxNzYwNjkxOTg5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTRkZWRFNEV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.FFqQi3vXmupq2Ue8MI0maUxOvf1ZsQkiM_ty4MKwGI4
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Anthropic Lands in Bangalore! Founder-CEO Dario Amodei in India this week The maker of Claude models sets sights on India’s tech frontier to boost talent & users; will open office, hire engineers by early 2026 (Gift link: free to read until Oct 15)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Anthropic Lands in Bangalore! Founder-CEO Dario Amodei in India this week The maker of Claude models sets sights on India’s tech frontier to boost talent & users; will open office, hire engineers by early 2026 (Gift link: free to read until Oct 15)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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DeepSeek debuts "DeepSeek Sparse Attention" next-gen architecture in experimental version of model DeepSeek-V3.1-Exp (Native Sparse Attention paper by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng & others won the ACL 2025 Best Paper award) Gift link (Free to read until Oct 7)
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DeepSeek debuts "DeepSeek Sparse Attention" next-gen architecture in experimental version of model DeepSeek-V3.1-Exp (Native Sparse Attention paper by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng & others won the ACL 2025 Best Paper award) Gift link (Free to read until Oct 7)
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A staggering $800 billion global shortfall in AI infrastructure spend is foreseen by 2030, according to a new report by Bain, and that could hamper AI's progress
@bloomberg.com
(Gift link: free to read until Sept 30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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about 2 months ago
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A staggering $800 billion global shortfall in AI infrastructure spend is foreseen by 2030, according to a new report by Bain, and that could hamper AI's progress
@bloomberg.com
(Gift link: free to read until Sept 30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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A rash of Chinese startups is challenging Musk's Neuralink in new, cutting-edge field in US-China AI wars: brain computer interfaces. Backed by Beijing, they've unleashed a wave of clinical trials this year
@bloomberg.com
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A rash of Chinese startups is challenging Musk's Neuralink in new, cutting-edge field in US-China AI wars: brain computer interfaces. Backed by Beijing, they've unleashed a wave of clinical trials this year
@bloomberg.com
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
about 2 months ago
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Anthropic, creator of Claude models, blocks its AI services to Chinese-owned entities abroad, citing competitive risks and threat to US national security. It's the latest sign of an intensifying US-China AI race (Gift link: free to read until Sept 12)
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Anthropic, creator of Claude models, blocks its AI services to Chinese-owned entities abroad, citing competitive risks and threat to US national security. It's the latest sign of an intensifying US-China AI race (Gift link: free to read until Sept 12)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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New! DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI in a newer frontier of the technology - via
@bloomberg.com
(Gift link: free to read until Sept 12)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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New! DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI in a newer frontier of the technology - via
@bloomberg.com
(Gift link: free to read until Sept 12)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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My newsletter from Hangzhou! Just 50 min by high-speed train from glitzy Shanghai is a city of 13M, home to DeepSeek, Unitree, Alibaba. I was there to see the metropolis emerge a nerve center for China’s AI ambitions (Gift link -- free to read until Sept 05)
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My newsletter from Hangzhou! Just 50 min by high-speed train from glitzy Shanghai is a city of 13M, home to DeepSeek, Unitree, Alibaba. I was there to see the metropolis emerge a nerve center for China’s AI ambitions (Gift link -- free to read until Sept 05)
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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India's first AI unicorn Fractal files for $560 million IPO, could get valued at over $3.5 billion Fractal builds AI products and services for global customers including Citigroup, Nestle, Philips
@bloomberg.com
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India's first AI unicorn Fractal files for $560 million IPO, could get valued at over $3.5 billion Fractal builds AI products and services for global customers including Citigroup, Nestle, Philips
@bloomberg.com
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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DeepSeek's knowhow fuels AI model called NurAI for the Muslim world To build its AI system, Zetrix relied on DeepSeek's approaches like Mixture of Experts & Multi-head Latent Attention, popularized by DeepSeek V3 model. Gift link: free to read till Aug 19
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Zetrix Unveils an AI Chatbot for Muslims With DeepSeek Knowhow
A Malaysian company has designed an AI large language model for Muslims based on open-source AI knowhow from China’s DeepSeek, one of the latest efforts to target a market of some 2 billion people.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/zetrix-unveils-an-ai-chatbot-for-muslims-with-deepseek-knowhow?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NDk4NTM3MiwiZXhwIjoxNzU1NTkwMTcyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMFJXM0FHUTFZUTEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.DQINJEntM36qjDmKfKxxb1iKpUF-NldGFEwHxKiXO9g
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DeepSeek's knowhow fuels AI model called NurAI for the Muslim world To build its AI system, Zetrix relied on DeepSeek's approaches like Mixture of Experts & Multi-head Latent Attention, popularized by DeepSeek V3 model. Gift link: free to read till Aug 19
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Zetrix Unveils an AI Chatbot for Muslims With DeepSeek Knowhow
A Malaysian company has designed an AI large language model for Muslims based on open-source AI knowhow from China’s DeepSeek, one of the latest efforts to target a market of some 2 billion people.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/zetrix-unveils-an-ai-chatbot-for-muslims-with-deepseek-knowhow?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NDk4NTM3MiwiZXhwIjoxNzU1NTkwMTcyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMFJXM0FHUTFZUTEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.DQINJEntM36qjDmKfKxxb1iKpUF-NldGFEwHxKiXO9g
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Who's winning the AI war - US or China? Here's how the technology, the state, the strategy and the money stack up as the two economic superpowers vie for AI domination via
@bloomberg.com
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Who's winning the AI war - US or China? Here's how the technology, the state, the strategy and the money stack up as the two economic superpowers vie for AI domination via
@bloomberg.com
Gift link (free to read until Aug 18)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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China Vies to Unseat US in Fight for $4.8 Trillion AI Market China is proposing a World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), convening countries to set new rules for the AI age My story from Shanghai with our China team Gift link (free to read until Aug 7)
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China Vies to Unseat US in Fight for $4.8 Trillion AI Market China is proposing a World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), convening countries to set new rules for the AI age My story from Shanghai with our China team Gift link (free to read until Aug 7)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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In Shanghai, the march of China's humanoid robots. Hundreds of rock guitar strumming, mahjong playing, popcorn & soda dispensing humanoids ruled at China's largest AI show, WAIC 2025 Shanghai.
tinyurl.com/4j2uuaej
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In Shanghai, the march of China's humanoid robots. Hundreds of rock guitar strumming, mahjong playing, popcorn & soda dispensing humanoids ruled at China's largest AI show, WAIC 2025 Shanghai.
tinyurl.com/4j2uuaej
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China robot maker Unitree unveils AI-powered humanoid at starting price of ~$6,000, breaking the price barrier. The R1 has 26 joints, weighs 25 kg, & has multi-modal voice + image recognition AI capabilities
@bloomberg.com
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I'm reporting from neon-lit Shanghai: China's most influential AI event WAIC 2025 takes off in this mega city, months after country's "DeepSeek moment", with Premier Li Qiang, AI giants, upstarts, Beijing officials. Event comes at critical juncture of US-China AI rivalry
tinyurl.com/2waxyanr
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4 months ago
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I'm reporting from neon-lit Shanghai: China's most influential AI event WAIC 2025 takes off in this mega city, months after country's "DeepSeek moment", with Premier Li Qiang, AI giants, upstarts, Beijing officials. Event comes at critical juncture of US-China AI rivalry
tinyurl.com/2waxyanr
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📢 Please share widely! I’ll be in Shanghai & Beijing next week thru Aug 7, diving deep into the AI scene. In Shanghai, mainly at World AI Conference, then Beijing. Wd love to connect with AI people. If you know someone doing exciting AI work - or if that’s you - let’s talk!
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📢 Please share widely! I’ll be in Shanghai & Beijing next week thru Aug 7, diving deep into the AI scene. In Shanghai, mainly at World AI Conference, then Beijing. Wd love to connect with AI people. If you know someone doing exciting AI work - or if that’s you - let’s talk!
[email protected]
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Manus, the AI agent startup, is shifting from China: laying off employees and shrinking operations in Beijing & Wuhan, while ramping up hiring in Singapore and elsewhere My story with China colleagues (free to read until Jul 17)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Manus, the AI agent startup, is shifting from China: laying off employees and shrinking operations in Beijing & Wuhan, while ramping up hiring in Singapore and elsewhere My story with China colleagues (free to read until Jul 17)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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An influential AI voice questions Zuckerberg's Superintelligence group hiring-spending spree Helen Toner, former OpenAI board member - Q: Can this turn around Meta’s fortunes, turn it into a real AI juggernaut? A: It’ll be difficult, lot of organizational politics at play
tinyurl.com/4wenvj55
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An influential AI voice questions Zuckerberg's Superintelligence group hiring-spending spree Helen Toner, former OpenAI board member - Q: Can this turn around Meta’s fortunes, turn it into a real AI juggernaut? A: It’ll be difficult, lot of organizational politics at play
tinyurl.com/4wenvj55
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Fist-pumping humanoid robots tottered along in a robot soccer game, sometimes colliding, sometimes falling on each other. Yet, the weekend game at a Beijing industrial zone was a breakthrough for humanoid robots and the artificial intelligence powering them
@bloomberg.com
tinyurl.com/2tatu5mb
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Fist-pumping humanoid robots tottered along in a robot soccer game, sometimes colliding, sometimes falling on each other. Yet, the weekend game at a Beijing industrial zone was a breakthrough for humanoid robots and the artificial intelligence powering them
@bloomberg.com
tinyurl.com/2tatu5mb
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Homegrown AI in unlikely places! A tiny startup called Egune builds indigenous AI model in and for Mongolia, in a bid to escape US-China AI dominance Gift link 🎁 (free to read until Jun 25)
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Homegrown AI in unlikely places! A tiny startup called Egune builds indigenous AI model in and for Mongolia, in a bid to escape US-China AI dominance Gift link 🎁 (free to read until Jun 25)
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Homegrown AI in unlikely places! A tiny startup called Egune builds indigenous AI model in and for Mongolia, in a bid to escape US-China AI dominance
tinyurl.com/rkbpmr7m
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Manus AI agent adds video-making capabilities, taking head on the likes of OpenAI's Sora. China-origin Manus is offering text-to-video service to paid users but says will roll out to all users soon. via
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tinyurl.com/mun688y7
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AI Upstart Manus Starts Text-to-Video Service to Take On OpenAI
Manus unveiled a text-to-video generation feature, entering a competitive segment populated by rivals from OpenAI to China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd.
https://tinyurl.com/mun688y7
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Am doing this Bloomberg Live Q&A tomorrow on China's Humanoids makers Details in the link:
www.bloomberg.com/sessions/202...
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Am doing this Bloomberg Live Q&A tomorrow on China's Humanoids makers Details in the link:
www.bloomberg.com/sessions/202...
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Why the rise of China's humanoid AI robots boom is worrying Elon Musk! My article on China's robotics startups and tech giants racing to dominate the global AI robot race Please share -- Gift link (valid for 7 days)
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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