[DigitalToday reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] As Big Tech companies accelerate their push into the coding AI tools market, attention is on whether the landscape led by Anthropic, OpenAI and Cursor will shift. Meta released its first AI coding agent, Muse Code, in beta form, formally entering the AI coding tools market led by Anthropic and OpenAI.

· Meta launches beta of its first AI coding agent, Muse Code

Google is discussing a deal worth about $1.5 billion involving AI coding startup Mechanize. Google is in talks to secure a non-exclusive licence for Mechanize’s technology and hire some of its model evaluation and development staff. Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Kiro Crew, an autonomous workspace in which an AI coding agent keeps working while developers are away. Kiro Crew is designed to assign multi-step tasks to multiple agents and sub-agents and delay developer involvement until review is needed.

· Google discusses licensing Mechanize technology in a $1.5 billion deal, targeting an expansion in AI coding · AWS launches autonomous orchestrator Kiro Crew, supporting code development around the clock

Some companies that use a lot of AI are also drawing attention by building and using in-house coding AI tools.

· As AI costs surge, they build and use their own coding AI tools

Chinese companies seeking to develop large-scale AI models comparable to those of U.S. firms are also moving faster. ByteDance is developing an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters. It has been assessed as possibly close in scale to Anthropic’s most advanced Mythos system. Alibaba Group made its new flagship model Qwen3.8-Max available via an API and set prices lower than rival Moonshot AI’s popular model Kimi K3.

· "ByteDance training a 10 trillion-parameter AI model... Mythos-class" · Alibaba unveils 240 billion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max, cheaper than Moonshot AI's Kimi K3

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek invested 140.8 million yuan ($20.8 million) in robotics company Unitree and agreed to jointly develop an AI model for humanoid robots.

· DeepSeek invests in Unitree, jointly developing an AI model for humanoid robots

Chinese AI companies are rapidly closing the gap with the United States in performance and speed of adoption, but the United States is still assessed to maintain a big edge in cutting-edge chips and computing resources, fundraising and talent recruitment.

· China AI rapidly closes in on U.S., but the United States still has a big edge in computing power and talent

Other domestic and international corporate moves around AI were also compiled.

LG AI Research said its in-house model for forecasting tabular data, EXAONE Tabular, and its model for predicting future data over time, EXAONE Forecast, each achieved the world’s best performance (SOTA, State of the Art) on global leaderboards.

· LG AI Research gains momentum in its industry-focused AI strategy, standing out in global benchmarks

Enterprise solutions company Younglimwon SoftLab launched an AI-based onboarding service, EverWelcoming, designed to help new hires adapt quickly and support HR staff in improving work efficiency. AI-based tax automation company Solomon Labs hired Changheon Lee (이창헌), a project lead formerly at global payments platform Stripe, to launch an AI agent for setting tax-saving strategies. Addit & Arc Corporation, which runs the AI-based Instagram organic-view advertising service Addit, raised seed funding from Mashup Ventures, Kakao Ventures, Base Ventures and BZCF.

· Younglimwon SoftLab launches AI-based onboarding service EverWelcoming, expanding its HR platform · Solomon Labs hires former Stripe lead Changheon Lee to develop a U.S. tax-saving strategy AI agent · AI advertising startup Addit & Arc raises seed funding from Mashup Ventures and others

AI company Diquest added a conversational feature, known as a Vibe workflow builder, to its Vibe AI agent platform Delma, enabling the creation of work-automation workflows using natural language alone. Realworld (RLWRLD) signed separate memorandums of understanding with three domestic robotics and simulation startups: Physics Sim Lab, SpaceAI and nDotLight.

· Diquest adds conversational workflow creation feature to AI agent platform Delma · Realworld partners with 3 domestic robotics and simulation firms on physical AI

OpenAI acquired presentation startup NextSlide. NextSlide team members are now working on ChatGPT-related tasks. OpenAI halted some work related to its upcoming AI model Astra. It cited internal evaluations showing it could not rule out the possibility that it has cyberattack capabilities that would qualify for a "critical" rating. OpenAI decided to provide unlimited text chat to both free ChatGPT users and high-usage users.

· OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide · OpenAI halts some Astra model development, "cannot rule out serious cyberattack potential" · ChatGPT to offer unlimited text chat to free users

Anthropic is forming an in-house AI chip design team. According to TechCrunch, Anthropic is seeking experienced chip design engineers to work on a "custom silicon team" through job postings.

· Anthropic forms an in-house AI chip design team

Enterprise AI company Cohere is speeding up its Asia-Pacific business expansion. Cohere plans to establish local subsidiaries in South Korea and Japan, strengthen cooperation with Singapore’s public sector and double its regional engineering and sales headcount by the end of this year.

· Enterprise AI platform Cohere moves to establish a South Korea unit, "hiring many FDEs" · "Competing with enterprise-optimised sovereign AI... to release a trillion-parameter model within the year"

Mistral AI unveiled Shieldstral, a lightweight multimodal safety model that classifies AI model inputs and outputs.

· Mistral launches 3 billion-parameter safety model Shieldstral

Cloudflare launched Kitesurf, a cloud browser dedicated to AI agents. Cloudflare also released Cloudflare OS, an open-source AI agent workspace for corporate employees.

· Cloudflare launches Kitesurf browser for AI agents · Cloudflare launches browser-based open-source AI workspace Cloudflare OS

Adobe launched an Adobe plugin in ChatGPT that integrates professional-grade tools for creativity and productivity into a single package.

· Adobe launches Adobe plugin in ChatGPT, usable in ChatGPT Work and Codex

Red Hat unveiled asago (AI Safety and Governance Orchestration), an open-source community project that automatically converts AI governance policies into operational controls.

· Red Hat unveils asago, leading an open-source project to automate AI governance

Nvidia is considering equipping its next-generation Rubin Ultra GPU with less high-bandwidth memory (HBM) than planned, a report said. Nvidia will support commercial use of its frontier-class open reasoning model, Nvidia Alpamayo 2 Super, for developing robotaxis and autonomous vehicles. Nvidia open-sourced its Qfile API, which connects GPUs directly to storage.

· Nvidia considers reducing memory on Rubin Ultra GPU, amid HBM supply shortages · Nvidia supports commercial use of Alpamayo 2 Super for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles · Nvidia open-sources Qfile API, enabling GPUs to read storage directly

Rimini Street, an enterprise software support and solutions provider, launched Rimini Govern for AI, the latest service in its governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution portfolio, Rimini Govern.

· Rimini Street launches managed AI agent governance service

As Chinese AI companies shake up the global AI market with open-weight AI models that can be downloaded for free and even modified with support, startups in the United States are also emerging that tout open-weight as a core strength.

· Open-weight AI companies also emerge in the United States, with questions over checking China