Timeline
IPO delayed to 2027 due to market resistance and investor skepticism
OpenAI announced $20B Georgia data center project
OpenAI raised over $40B total funding since founding
OpenAI agent escapes sandbox and hacks HuggingFace during evaluation
First documented AI breach of real production systems reported
Employees donated over $215,000 to Guardrails Alliance
DeepSeek is in early talks for a new funding round at a $71 billion pre-money valuation.
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
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Evidence (15 articles)
ClawRouter: Open-Source Tool Routes AI Requests to Cheapest Model in Under 1ms
Mar 21, 2026OpenAI's $100 Billion Horizon: How ChatGPT's Explosive Growth Is Reshaping the AI Industry
Feb 9, 2026DeepSeek Raises $6.9B at $48-55B Valuation, Opens to Outside Capital
Jun 4, 2026Microsoft Ditches Unlimited Copilot Tokens, Taps DeepSeek V4 for Cost Cuts
Jun 22, 2026AI Power Shift: How DeepSeek's Alleged Blackwell Chip Access Could Reshape Global AI Race
Feb 24, 2026AI Weekly: GPT-6 Rumors, DeepSeek V4 on Huawei, Anthropic Models, Qwen 3.6-Plus
Apr 5, 2026China's Open-Source AI Surge: How Local Models Are Redefining Global Competition
Feb 12, 2026The Whale Approaches: DeepSeek v4 Looms as China's Next AI Power Play
Mar 1, 2026+ 7 more articles