AI’s Wild 48 Hours: Bold $34B Bids, Breakthrough Bots & High-Stakes Showdowns (Aug 12–13, 2025)
Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI released MolmoAct 7B, an open-source model enabling robots to plan 3D movements, achieving over 72% success in simulations. Zhipu AI launched GLM-4.5V, a 106B-parameter visual reasoning model and desktop assistant. Perplexity AI offered $34.5B to buy Google Chrome. Tesla canceled its Dojo AI supercomputer, shifting to new chip platforms for FSD and robotaxis.