AI affordability wakeup call to Anthropic piping OpenAI in terms of valuations — Weekly AI roundup
From Anthropic’s $65 billion mega funding round to the announcement of India’s first homegrown 12nm AI chip, the world of AI has seen a lot of action this week. AI defined the force of global finance, cybersecurity, and corporate strategy. In the week that went by, we saw Anthropic raising its value to $965 billion while China’s DeepSeek decided to cut prices by 75 per cent. Big Tech realised that AI infrastructure isn’t cheap to maintain and hence, ordered scaling down on encouraging AI usage, while Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, in the midst of global political disruption, is joining the Tsinghua Advisory Board.
