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ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have reportedly ordered more than 3 million Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards, with a collective sticker price of over $35 billion, according to two people familiar with the matter.
OpenAI is reportedly racing to secure investor commitments before rival Anthropic's expected public market debut in mid-November. The fast fundraising could value the ChatGPT maker at over $1.4 trillion, according to sources; one report cites a $30 billion raise.
China's DeepSeek has released an open-source tool designed to dramatically reduce the computing costs of running AI models. Separately, China's Commerce Ministry said it firmly opposes a US order concerning DeepSeek, arguing the action disregards a consensus reached between Chinese and US heads of state.
According to a post from @zerohedge, DeepSeek is now designing Huawei's AI chips. The same report says DHS has ordered DeepSeek removed from federal systems.
According to sources, OpenAI is working to secure investor commitments for a private funding round ahead of Anthropic's IPO. Separately, Eric Schmidt reportedly owns roughly 1% of Anthropic, a stake potentially worth $20 billion ahead of the IPO.
Investors are asking whether tech giants are spending too much on AI. John Stoltzfus of Oppenheimer Asset Management told Reuters the risks are real but said that, given the insatiable appetite for AI, today's spending spree is no mistake.
Tynion — AI Image Studio
Tynion is TYO Lab's text-to-image studio. Describe what you want to see, pick a model, and generate — then share your prompt with the community or remix someone else's. Explore daily illustrations and their complete image prompts in the gallery, too.
Gouache painting in sepia and burnt umber, low-key lighting. A silent harbor at dusk: towering container cranes bow their heads like resting giraffes, silhouetted against a sliver of ochre sky. On the still black water, a single folded paper boat drifts, its creases catching one warm highlight. Gold Adinkra-style stamp patterns emboss the crane steel, dripping glossy paint streaks down their legs. Flat matte shapes, mid-century storybook feel, reverent stillness.
Line art, Bauhaus Poster, duotone, god rays, ember sparks. Clean contour outlines form a geometric field of tidal kites arcing and dipping over a harbor, their tethers sweeping in rhythmic grids. Two-colour palette: deep indigo ink and warm sodium-amber. Fanning crepuscular rays slice through hazy air; scattered ember sparks drift upward. Crisp, modernist, awe-filled, purely graphic, no shading.
Linocut print, Rococo, autumn palette, rim light. A great copper loom with gilded rococo scrollwork and plump carved cherubs stands in a harvested field between tiny steeple towns, its warp strung with rust, amber and burnt-orange yarn that spills into winding rivers of thread across the valley, each strand knotted with tiny rolled messages; a low sun traces a bright golden-brown rim along the loom's edges against a deep umber sky, flat carved shapes and rough hand-cut contours, cozy nostalgic mood.
Linocut print in Rococo style, autumn palette: a single ornate brass lantern lowered on a gilded chain into a vast dark reservoir, its volumetric light carving amber and rust beams through haze, revealing still, clear water below glittering with burnt-orange ripples and deep-red reflections, framed by carved rocaille swirls and delicate golden-brown flourishes, bold flat shapes, rough hand-carved edges, solemn wonder.
Gouache painting, Afrofuturism, sepia tone with backlight and rule of thirds: an immense undersea library of coral-grown server racks, copper-amber and deep umber coral shelves spiraling upward, a lone diver-scholar silhouette placed on the left third, gentle teal-brown current-ribbons carrying pale data skeins between racks, soft octopus tendrils tending coiled cables, hazy backlit water haze haloing the structures, matte velvety pigment, muted olive and sepia shadow, calm humming tides, storybook-poster stillness.
Isometric illustration, Retro Futurism: a tiny domed research outpost on a crescent-shaped asteroid, chrome atomic-age antennas and filigreed brass scaffolding, viewed from a fixed overhead angle. Muted dusty teal, faded ochre, and soft rose-grey rock. Bioluminescent alien moss and mushroom colonies cast soft blue-green glow across intricate engraved hull panels; deep indigo space behind, quiet and wondrous.
