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Big Tech, startups heat up early race for personal AI agents

Competition is intensifying in personal AI agents for individual users, with Meta launching its Muse assistant app for Mac. Startups are also moving faster, including Instinct developer Sphere Street Technology seeking $1 billion in funding at a $10 billion valuation, and Chinese startup Manus pursuing $500 million at a $4 billion valuation. The article also rounds up moves by Korean and overseas companies in AI, enterprise agents, cloud security certification and advertising tests in ChatGPT.

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U.S. open-weight AI startups emerge, but checking China is unclear

As Chinese AI companies shake the global market with low-cost open-weight models that users can download and modify, U.S. startups are also emerging with open-weight offerings. The Wall Street Journal named Arcee, Reflection AI, Poolside and Thinking Machine Lab as drawing attention. Demand is rising in the United States for domestic open-weight models amid geopolitical concerns, but fundraising remains difficult and performance against leading Chinese models is still uncertain.

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