STORY: From a potential payday for OpenAI staffers, to a possible setback for DeepSeek, this is AI Weekly.
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Current and former workers at OpenAI could sell $6 billion worth of shares to buyers including Japan’s SoftBank.
That’s according to a Reuters source.
The deal would price the ChatGPT maker at $500 billion, confirming that its value has soared along with revenue and user numbers.
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A new poll by Google shows 87% of video game developers now use AI to help create products.
Many of the 615 developers surveyed said they were using the tech to automate repetitive tasks, freeing up programmers to focus on more creative work.
44% said they were using AI agents to rapidly process information such as text, voice, code, audio and video.
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Nvidia might get to sell advanced AI chips to China once again.
Reuters sources say it’s developing a new semiconductor for the country that would be more powerful than the H20 it currently sells there.
But they warn Washington could still block export of the product, over concerns about supplying cutting-edge tech to China.
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Foxconn says it will work with SoftBank to make equipment for the vast U.S. Stargate data center project in Ohio.
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Foxconn Chairman Young Liu says SoftBank will own the factory and machinery, while the pair share ownership of the resulting gear.
Stargate is a $500 billion project meant to drive U.S. AI infrastructure.
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And DeepSeek appears to have delayed launching the latest version of its AI model.
The Financial Times says it failed to train the bot using chips made by Huawei, potentially highlighting how hard it is for Beijing to do without U.S. silicon.
Earlier this year, DeepSeek rocked the tech sector by appearing to match rivals like ChatGPT at vastly lower cost.
