GenAI Daily: a daily digest of enterprise-relevant AI news, curated by rAInvent in Singapore.
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Top Story Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has ushered in 2026 with a new technical paper that proposes a rethink of the fundamental architecture used to train foundational AI models. The paper introduces what DeepSeek calls "Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections," or mHC, a training approach designed to scale models
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Top Story Apple Officially Partners with Google Gemini for Siri Overhaul Apple is joining forces with Google to power its artificial intelligence features, including a major Siri upgrade expected later this year. The multiyear partnership will lean on Google's Gemini and cloud technology for future Apple foundational models,
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Top Story Microsoft Unveils Maia 200: Second-Generation AI Chip Challenges NVIDIA's Dominance Microsoft announced the next generation of its artificial intelligence chip, a potential alternative to leading processors from Nvidia , with the chip offering 30% higher performance than alternatives for the same price . Microsoft is outfitting its
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Top Story As 2026 unfolds, enterprise AI is entering its "pragmatism phase" after years of experimentation and hype cycles. The focus is shifting away from building ever-larger language models toward the harder work of making AI usable through smaller, targeted deployments, embedded intelligence in physical devices, and
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Top Story The World Economic Forum has released today a new report revealing successful AI stories that are already delivering measurable performance gains and how pioneering organizations are moving beyond experimentation to achieve impact at scale. As investment accelerates and expectations rise, the findings highlight a growing divide between companies
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Top Story AI Infrastructure Sees Record Capital Surge as Power Crisis Intensifies Major AI infrastructure funding reached new heights this week, with Inferact securing $150 million in seed funding on Jan. 22, 2026, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, valued at about $800 million. The commercial startup
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Top Story OpenAI and ServiceNow announced a three-year partnership on January 20, 2026, aimed at integrating advanced AI agents directly into enterprise software. This collaboration promises to embed cutting-edge artificial intelligence capabilities into ServiceNow's platform, enabling automated handling of complex tasks like IT troubleshooting and customer
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Top Story Anthropic Prepares Massive $25 Billion Funding Round at $350 Billion Valuation Sequoia Capital is planning a "big investment" in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup behind the chatbot Claude, according to the Financial Times. Anthropic, founded in 2021 by former employees of OpenAI, is aiming to raise
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Top Story ServiceNow-OpenAI Partnership Delivers Speech AI for Enterprise ServiceNow entered into a multiyear agreement with OpenAI, granting its customers direct access to frontier model capabilities, with plans to build speech-to-speech AI agents that let users speak in their preferred languages, triggering an action in real time
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Top Story Enterprise AI Enters "Show Me the Money" Phase as Consolidation Accelerates Enterprise AI spending patterns are shifting dramatically as VCs predict companies will increase budgets for AI in 2026 but concentrate spend on fewer vendors. TechCrunch's survey of 24 enterprise-focused VCs shows an
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Top Story Enterprises across Asia Pacific are accelerating their shift from AI experimentation to execution, with 96% of organizations planning to increase AI investments over the next 12 months, according to the 4th edition of the Lenovo CIO Playbook 2026 - The Race for Enterprise AI, commissioned by Lenovo with insights