Large Model Companies and AI Infrastructure Firms Recently Attract Capital


The Dutch AI cloud company Nebius has reached a five-year cooperation agreement with Meta worth $3 billion. Nebius will provide AI infrastructure for Meta, and the specific architecture remains undisclosed. The company also released its third-quarter financial report.
The 2025 Hong Kong Fintech Week focuses on the integration of fintech and AI, bringing together guests such as Carrie Lam and Geoffrey Hinton. Zhu Guang, CEO of Du Xiaoman, emphasized the innovative applications of large models in financial services, driving customer service from monthly surveys to real-time responses, achieving a revolutionary transformation centered around customer-centricity.
"Baidu E-commerce Selection" brand uses large model technology to optimize risk control review, achieving full machine review, instant feedback, and high interpretability, solving the problems of low efficiency and slow response in traditional manual review, and enhancing e-commerce security and user experience.
Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's 9 billion dollar all-stock acquisition, with the largest shareholder Sina Toussi becoming the key force behind the rejection. This failed AI infrastructure merger exposes significant disagreements in the capital market regarding the valuation of computing power assets, reflecting the gambling mentality in the current AI investment boom.
A study by the University of Chicago found significant differences in the performance of AI text detectors, with some tools having high accuracy but others frequently misclassifying, especially in short texts. The Pangram detector performed best in terms of accuracy and cost-effectiveness. The study, based on 1992 human texts and four mainstream large models, covered six types of texts and revealed shortcomings in the reliability and robustness of detectors.