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Top AI News: Billion $ valuations to Trillion $ impact
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Shivang Gupta
December 10, 2025
Singaporean AI startup fundraise, global AI company valuations rise, new AI models coming out
The updates from world of AI is not slowing down, be it local Asian startups, or the global tech giants - everyone is moving faster than before for world dominance.
Read about latest AI news from Singapore, Asia, and the world in the last week or two.
Qatar's $20B AI Power Play
ByteDance's AI phone sparks fear
ChemLex secures $45M for AI lab
Trump allows Nvidia H200 sales to China
Cortex AI nets $6M for real-world data
Meta Bets Big on ‘Avocado’
Black Forest Labs' $3.25B valuation
Code Red: Altman vs Google
NYT Targets Perplexity in Court
Fal soars to $4.5B valuation
We curating news about early-stage AI startups that you may not have heard of, key global movements that affect you and your business, and latest innovations in AI and LLM - so that you don’t have to.
It’s time to stop doomscrolling your socials and multiple AI newsletters. You just need THE ONE!
Qatar's $20B AI Power Play
Brookfield and Qatar’s Qai are creating a $20B AI infrastructure venture to build high-performance data centres and an Integrated Compute hub.
ByteDance's AI phone sparks fear
ByteDance’s new AI-first smartphone has lit up China’s tech scene, alarming Tencent and Alibaba, which fear losing user data and app dominance
ChemLex secures $45M for AI lab
ChemLex raised $45M to establish its global HQ and a self-driving drug discovery lab in Singapore to accelerate small-molecule R&D worldwide.
Trump allows Nvidia H200 sales to China
Trump approved Nvidia’s H200 AI chip exports to vetted Chinese customers, for a 25% fee.
Cortex AI nets $6M for real-world data
Carousell co-founder Lucas Ngoo's robotics startup Cortex AI raised $6M seed funding to collect real-world data for robots.
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Meta Bets Big on ‘Avocado’
Meta is developing a new frontier AI model called Avocado, shifting away from its open-source Llama strategy.
Black Forest Labs' $3.25B valuation
German image‑generation startup Black Forest Labs raised $300M in Series B funding at a $3.25B valuation.
Code Red: Altman vs Google
Sam Altman told OpenAI staff that the company is in ‘code red’, shifting focus to upgrading ChatGPT’s everyday experience as Google’s Gemini gains ground.
NYT Targets Perplexity in Court
New York Times sued Perplexity AI in US federal court, alleging it illegally copied and displayed millions of articles to train their model and misuse NYT trademark.
Fal soars to $4.5B valuation
Fal, an AI startup that hosts image, video and audio AI models, raised $140M in a Sequoia-led Series D at a $4.5B valuation.
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