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AI & Enterprise
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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K-AI chips put to the test as global AI startups step up push into South Korea
South Korean neural processing unit makers are teaming up with domestic cloud companies to target the AI inference market, testing whether they can secure a foothold beyond Nvidia’s barriers. Samsung SDS launched an NPU-as-a-service offering on its Samsung Cloud Platform based on FuriosaAI’s second-generation chip. Rebellions is also partnering with KT Cloud and Gabia. Foreign AI startups are stepping up moves into Korea, including Genspark and China’s Kling AI.
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Poolside unveils \'Laguna S 2.1\' open-weight model for coding agents
AI coding startup Poolside said it has unveiled an open-weight foundation model for coding agents called Laguna S 2.1. The company said the model has 118 billion parameters and showed performance that matched or exceeded several larger models on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and SWE-Bench Pro. It said the model can run on a single Nvidia DGX Spark system and that its weights are available on Hugging Face under the OpenMDW-1.1 license.