Timeline
Off-balance-sheet debt tied to AI infrastructure leases reaches $1.65 trillion across five tech giants, an eightfold increase in four years.
DeepSeek is in early talks for a new funding round at a $71 billion pre-money valuation.
Reportedly considering deal with PrismML for on-device AI
Released DSpark speculative decoding framework
Began developing custom inference ASICs to cut GPU dependency
China's domestic AI chip budget share rises to 46%, driven by DeepSeek and Zhipu exploring custom silicon
Raised $7B in first major funding round, abandoning no-funding pledge
Plans to launch Harness AI coding agent team to compete with Claude Code
Apple previewed new Siri in camera with visual intelligence feature
AFM Core Advanced announced as sparse multimodal on-device model for iPhone 17 Pro, M3+ Mac, M4+ iPad