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1. Mistral Debuts “Le Chonk”: Open-Weight Large 4 in Public Preview, Weights Drop Oct 27

   

   …ters: It was trained on about 4,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's own European data centers; weight…

   Stories·Oct 6

2. Lambda Seeks $4B in Final Pre-IPO Round at $14.5B Valuation: $35B of Its $50B Backlog Is One Customer

   

   …loud Lambda is raising up to $4B at a $14.5B pre-money valuation, led by Blackstone and Coatue — its final rou…

   Stories·Oct 7

3. Nvidia-Backed Firmus Withdraws $31B IPO That Would Have Been Australia's Biggest in Nearly 30 Years

   

   …valued the company at about A$44 billion and targeted nearly $5 billion; it would have been Australia's larges…

   Flash·Oct 9

4. Nvidia in Talks to Deepen Investment in Reflection AI or Acquire It

   

   …in April would rank among the largest capital moves of this AI cycle.

   Flash·Oct 11

5. Nvidia-Backed Firmus Said to Cut $5B Australian IPO Pricing as Investors Balk

   

   …t would be Australia's second-largest IPO in nearly 30 years; local media say the price could fall from A$11 t…

   Flash·Oct 8

6. Microsoft × NVIDIA Start Selling Surface Laptop Ultra: Runs 120B Models Locally, Top Config ~$7,000

   

   …cally; the entry S2 has only 24GB of memory, and official pricing is still unannounced.

   Stories·Oct 8

7. Super Micro Contractor Pleads Guilty in $2.5B AI-Chip Smuggling Case

   

   …; the operation ran since ~2024 through a Southeast Asian pass-through concealing China end customers; the ind…

   Stories·Oct 10

8. Sequoia Leads $60M Series B for Robot-Data Startup Mecka AI

   

   … AI, Mercor and Surge did for large language models: supply the human-generated data these systems learn from.…

   Flash·Oct 8