Why Founders Are Betting on Screen‑Free AI, Audio, and Agents
What Changed and Why It Matters AI is moving off the glass. Founders are pivoting from screen-bound apps to audio-native, ambient agents that live in ears, homes, and cars. The…
Inside vLLM’s $150M push to make inference a real platform for AI
What Changed and Why It Matters Inferact, founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, has launched with a reported $150M seed round to commercialize the open-source inference engine.…
Zhipu’s Huawei-trained multimodal AI signals life beyond Nvidia
What Changed and Why It Matters Zhipu AI released an open-weight image model trained entirely on Huawei’s Ascend chips. It’s a concrete proof point that a full Chinese AI stack—chips,…