AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

Gate News message, April 24 — Zhang Chi, a former engineer at ByteDance's Seed team and current assistant professor at Peking University, revealed on the podcast "Into Asia" that ByteDance requires approximately six months to complete one full cycle of large language model training (pretraining

Gate News message, April 24 — OpenAI engineer Clive Chan has raised detailed objections to the hardware recommendations chapter in the V4 technical report, calling it "surprisingly mediocre and error-prone" compared to the acclaimed V3 version. V3's hardware guidance, which included Q&A sessions

Gate News message, April 24 — Naver announced the start of a closed beta for AI Tab, its new conversational search feature, following Google's launch of Gemini in Chrome in South Korea. AI Tab will appear alongside Naver's existing search tabs, offering users a dedicated space for conversational

LinkedIn's AI Labor Market Report 2026, released on April 24, found that AI engineering hiring in India rose 59.5% year on year, marking the fastest pace among the markets studied by the platform. The growth was driven by demand spreading beyond established tech centers. Cities including

Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced it will cut approximately 120 jobs as the nation's largest bank reviews roles and expands its use of artificial intelligence, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include 43 roles at Bankwest in Western Australia, with six positions affected by automation. This a

Anysphere announced that Cursor will work with xAI to train a new model using Colossus infrastructure to overcome compute bottlenecks; SpaceX has proposed a $60 billion acquisition option (fully acquirable within 2026), and if not, it would pay about $10 billion as collaboration compensation. The two transactions are happening at the same time, reshaping who can train Cursor and who can buy Cursor. Cursor still allows many model backends, but in the long run it depends on whether SpaceX exercises its acquisition option.

According to a report by Decrypt, Forge Global’s Anthropic secondary valuation is about $1 trillion, while OpenAI is about $880 billion, with the first leading reversal appearing in the secondary market. Anthropic’s ARR grew from about $9 billion at the end of 2025 to about $30 billion in March 2026—an increase of 233% over three months—boosting private-market valuations. Secondary valuations differ from primary fundraising, reflecting confidence in exits; going forward, expectations remain on four tracks: technology, policy, business, and narrative.

Gate News message, April 24 — OristaPay, a brand operating under RD Technologies, announced a complete payment pathway enabling AI agents to execute transactions within the Telegram ecosystem during the Hong Kong Web3 Festival. The system allows users to trigger digital asset transactions through na

DBS announced on April 24 the expansion of its Spark GenAI program, developed in partnership with Enterprise Singapore and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), to support local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in adopting artificial intelligence. The program uses a three-tier

Gate News message, April 24 — Meta Platforms plans to reduce its workforce by approximately 10%, affecting roughly 8,000 positions, on May 20. The layoffs are intended to improve operational efficiency while increasing investment in artificial intelligence. The planned restructuring reflects the

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the White House, in an official statement released on April 23 by Presidential Assistant Michael J. Kratsios, said that the Trump administration has information indicating that foreign entities (mainly based in China) are intentionally targeting major U.S. artificial intelligence companies. They are systematically extracting U.S. AI model capabilities through “tens of thousands of agent accounts” and jailbreaking technology, and are simultaneously announcing four response measures.

DeepSeek officially launched the V4 preview series on April 24, with open-sourced model weights under the MIT license, and the model weights have been also released on Hugging Face and ModelScope. According to the DeepSeek V4 technical report, V4-Pro-Max (the highest inference intensity mode) scored 3206 points on the Codeforces benchmark, surpassing GPT-5.4.

Gate News message, April 24 — A debate has erupted in the United States over DeepSeek V4's technological capabilities and compliance. Chris McGuire, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and former White House National Security Council and Department of Defense official, publishe

Tencent officially open-sourced the Hy3 preview version of a large language model on April 23 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and the ModelScope platform, and simultaneously provided paid API service via Tencent Cloud. According to Decrypt’s report on April 24, the Hy3 preview version began training in late January and reached the publication calendar in less than three months.

FTX, the centralized cryptocurrency exchange that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 2022 due to liquidity shortages and capital outflows, would have held investments valued at approximately 158.796 trillion won if it had not collapsed, according to analysis cited by Park

Gate News message, April 24 — Xiaomi's large language model team lead Luo Fuli disclosed in an in-depth interview that the MiMo-V2-Pro model has 1 trillion parameters in total and required thousands of GPUs for training. She noted that the 1T scale represents the minimum threshold to achieve

Gate News message, April 24 — DeepSeek V4 has published results from formal mathematical reasoning evaluations, achieving a perfect score of 120/120 on Putnam-2025, tying with Axiom for first place. In the practical regime using LeanExplore and constrained sampling, V4-Flash-Max scored 81.00 on the

Epoch AI’s research shows that Claude users are mostly higher-income groups, with 80% earning more than $100k per year. Meta AI has the widest income distribution, with 36.5% earning over $100k, and the largest share is in the low-income bracket. As Claude’s pricing increases and tiered billing is introduced, costs may rise, while Meta is easier to enter. Which AI you use in the future may become an implicit identity label.

Gate News message, April 24 — V4 has publicly disclosed internal dogfooding data for its V4-Pro model. The company collected approximately 200 real-world engineering tasks from over 50 engineers, covering feature development, bug fixes, refactoring, and diagnostics across tech stacks including

The United Kingdom is exploring a major step in financial cybersecurity by working with AI firm Anthropic. Early discussions suggest the government may deploy Anthropic’s advanced Claude Mythos model across banks and financial institutions. This move aims to improve defenses as cyber threats