AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Meta, Muse Spark 1.1 launched on July 9, marking the company's first AI model offered to developers on a paid basis. The model features API pricing of $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens—approximately one-quarter the cost of OpenAI and Anthropic's

After SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, Musk described it on X as an "Opus-level product, faster and cheaper," and later added that "it seems to rank first in at least some benchmark tests"; however, Musk later admitted that this comparison was against the previous generation Claude Opus 4.8, not the current one. Grok 4.5 costs $2 for input, while Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5 According to SpaceXAI's official pricing and Artificial Analysis data, Grok 4.5's API pricing is $2 per million tokens for input an

According to Beating, Meta announced yesterday that it will launch its self-developed AI chip Iris in September and expand compute capacity from 7GW this year to 14GW by 2027. The company also began charging developers for access to its Muse Spark 1.1 large language model via API, marking its

Meta Platforms, Inc. released the Muse Spark 1.1 AI model on Thursday, while Cathie Wood's ARK Investment Management purchased 34,080 Meta shares valued at $20.6 million. The AI model represents Meta's most capable release yet for coding and agentic tasks, marking the company's push to compete in th

Meta released the Muse Spark 1.1 AI model on Thursday, its most capable model yet for coding and agentic tasks. ARK Invest disclosed late Thursday that it acquired 34,080 Meta shares valued at $20.6 million. META stock rose 4.7% on Thursday and added 1.3% in overnight trading, moving closer to its 2

According to UBS, global memory chip sales reached $74.6 billion in June, hitting an all-time high with a month-over-month increase of 31.7%. DRAM sales accounted for approximately $48 billion (up 27.7%), while NAND Flash surged to $25.8 billion (up 40.7%), driven by rising AI data center demand. U

According to ChainCatcher, on July 5, ANTON held a closed-door Web4.0 ecosystem meeting in Hong Kong. MY Group CEO Zhang Dingwen attended and announced that MY Group will provide ecosystem resources, global market capabilities, and capital support to ANTON. The two entities will deepen

According to Beating, OpenAI's AGI deployment CEO Fidji Simo announced she is transitioning from full-time to part-time advisor role. Simo, who joined OpenAI in 2025, took a three-month medical leave beginning in April due to a neurological immune condition and determined recovery will take longer t

According to CEO Kim Yeon-seop's statement at a July 9 investor relations day, Lotte Energy Materials will expand AI chipset copper foil production capacity to 16,000 tons by the first half of 2027, up from the current 3,700 tons. The company aims to capitalize on structural supply shortages in AI-d

According to Decrypt, researchers from Tel Aviv University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Intuit discovered a new attack method on July 10 called 'adversarial hallucination injection' that exploits AI model hallucinations to trick AI agents into downloading malicious code and

According to Bernstein's July 9 report on memory interface chips, AI's shift from training to inference is driving server CPU shipment growth of 24% compound annual growth rate through 2030, while expanding memory interface chip TAM threefold to $20

According to TechCrunch, on July 10, Sequoia partner David Cahn updated his analysis on AI infrastructure investment returns. He calculated that global AI infrastructure spending will reach approximately $1.5 trillion in 2026. When accounting for data center operating costs and operator profits,

According to BlockBeats, on July 10, MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie announced he will forgo salary indefinitely until the company achieves AGI. Over the next four years, he will allocate 4% of his personal company shares to incentivize long-term team members and 1% to establish a dedicated fund supporting o

According to Beating, Elon Musk publicly reversed his earlier criticism of Anthropic in July, calling it the AI industry leader and acknowledging he was wrong about the company. No other company has released better models than Anthropic's Mythos and Fable, Musk stated. The shift followed a May

On July 10, MiniMax announced a combined capital raising of HK$16.041 billion through equity offerings and convertible bonds. Shares dropped to a low of HK$271 (down 8.9%), trading at HK$277.80 with turnover exceeding HK$740 million by 9:43 a.m. The company plans to issue 35.6 million A-class

Gate News reports that as of July 10, US (Talus) is trading at $0.0266, up 50.2% in the past 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.0299 and dropping to a low of $0.0168. The 24-hour trading volume is $1.2475 million. The current market cap is approximately $58.53 million. Talus Network is an AI agent execution layer designed to provide verifiable on-chain workflows for consumer applications and developer tools. Its ecosystem consists of: Nexus, a decentralized execution layer for AI agents; Talus Visi

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated the company could be worth more than the rest of Earth's total value if it accomplishes its long-term goals, responding to criticism of a reported AI compute deal involving Anthropic, xAI, and SpaceX. The claim came after X user Thomas D. questioned whether the deal could

Ha Tae-kyung, head of Korea Insurance Training Institute, declared the institution's 'AI Transformation Year' and announced the completion of three AI education solutions on the 10th. The announcement, delivered through a message to staff on the 9th, marks the institute's 61st anniversary

Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) officially released Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9; Alexandr Wang, head of Meta AI, said in a CNBC interview that Muse Spark 1.1 is Meta’s “strongest agent task and coding work model” to date. Muse Spark 1.1 Core Specs: 1 Million Token Context According to Meta’s official description, the main specs and features of Muse Spark 1.1 are as follows: Context window: 1 million tokens, enabling easy retrieval of past records, active memory, and compression of key steps Multi

According to Yonhapinfomax, the Korea Insurance Training Institute announced the completion of three major AI-powered education solutions on July 9, marking what president Ha Tae-kyung called the institute's "Year One of AI Digital Transformation" on its 61st anniversary. The three solutions are AI