Nvidia disclosed a $26 billion plan to build open-weight AI models, directly challenging OpenAI and Anthropic, while simultaneously launching Nemotron 3 Super — a 120B-parameter open model delivering 5x higher throughput for agentic AI systems.
Alibaba's AI chatbot Qwen was forced to suspend coupon distribution after 10 million orders flooded the platform within 9 hours, overwhelming the system during the company's ambitious 3-billion-yuan agentic AI shopping initiative for China's Spring Festival.
Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 4.6 with breakthrough 1M token context window, outperforming GPT-5.2 by 144 Elo points on finance tasks and achieving top scores on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and Humanity's Last Exam benchmarks.
Google and Walmart partnership enables direct shopping in Gemini chatbot with Universal Commerce Protocol for AI-powered retail transformation.
