Huawei unveiled its Ascend 960 supernode, featuring near-packaged optics technology; OpenAI launched Astra for Law, as AI competition deepens into both computing power infrastructure and professional services. On the funding front, Crusoe announced the closing of the first round of a new funding round expected to reach $3.9 billion. On the application front, ChatGPT was integrated into Word, and Google CC shifted its focus to home collaboration. Anthropic publicly announced its development of automated measurement and open-sourced its biological model optimization code. Model Pulse focuses on Nemotron's rise to third place on Kilo and the differences in evaluation results brought about by legal search configurations.
