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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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Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter for nearly $10 billion

Payments company Stripe is discussing a plan to acquire AI model access startup OpenRouter for a price close to $10 billion, The Information reported on July 23, citing a source familiar with internal matters. The report said the deal could be announced as soon as within a month, though talks could also fall apart. OpenRouter was previously valued at $1.3 billion in a funding round and has drawn interest from tech companies.

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Upstage unveils \'Solar Open 2\' touting agent performance

Upstage unveiled its open-weight large language model \'Solar Open 2\' optimised for agent task execution and released the model weights on Hugging Face. Developed through a government sovereign AI foundation model project, it uses a mixture-of-experts design with 250 billion parameters and activates 15 billion in use. Upstage said it outperformed rival models on multiple benchmarks and plans broader deployments and AX services across industries.