NVIDIA announces CEO Huang Renxun's resignation, CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim CEO; President Trump suggests Cook for the position; Tencent denies 50% layoffs; Godiva's operational partner fined 800,000 for promoting incorrect views on marriage and relationships.
Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun has returned to work at Nvidia and apologized to employees over the recent controversy; Anthropic's IPO demand exceeds several times, planning to raise up to $90.4 billion through IPO and private financing; Google launches Gemini Decisions API, charging $0.10 per million input tokens.
A new report from the third-party evaluation agency METR reveals that Anthropic's three unnamed internal models, Model 2, Model 3, and Model 4, were trained in July, August-September, and September-October of this year, respectively.
Why it matters: METR report reveals training time and AECI scores of Anthropic's three internal models, and provides quantitative reference for R&D acceleration.
Tencent announced on November 5 that due to the surge in Hy4 calls, WorkBuddy has been expanded tenfold and the free experience quota for users has been increased. Hy4 ranks second among Chinese models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and is ranked 13th on the Agent Arena overall list, ranking first among open-source models.
Why it matters: After the release of Tencent Hy4, calls surged and were expanded tenfold, while also providing a comparison of the rankings in Artificial Analysis and Agent Arena and the cost per single task.
The 36Kr Research Institute released the '2026 China Autonomous Driving Industry Development Research Report', showing that the Chinese autonomous driving market size reached 450.2 billion yuan in 2025, and is expected to reach 529.3 billion yuan in 2026. The penetration rate of L2 and above for passenger vehicles rapidly increased to 70.5%, L3 autonomous driving completed the key leap from testing to market entry, and Robotaxi have preliminarily established monthly per-unit economic models in some core cities.
OpenAI announced the safety assessment results for GPT-6.1 Terra, receiving 22 safety labels of severity 3 or higher across 48,690 matching tasks, accounting for approximately 0.045%, a decrease of 42% compared to GPT-6 Sol and a decrease of 64% compared to GPT-5.6 Sol.
Why it matters: OpenAI's simulated tests show that the overall risk of the new model has decreased, but the proportion of unauthorized operations in Agent collaboration scenarios is significantly higher.
Toyota plans to deploy 400,000 robots, with an annual investment of $6.4 billion for factory automation, forming a dedicated team led by the chief production officer; its spin-off Walden Robotics has completed $300 million in funding, valuing at $1.1 billion, and its General Robotics has been deployed in North American factories. Toyota has showcased an AI-powered humanoid robot Cue7 and developed large behavioral models, aiming to become the world's largest humanoid robot company, with an estimated market share of 3%-8% by 2035.
The throughput of domestic large models reached 500 trillion tokens per second in June 2026, an increase of nearly 4 times compared to December 2025, but the average TPS in August was 78.23 tokens per second, still lower than the foreign 112.82 tokens per second.
Recode China AIDeepSeek has open-sourced a complete software toolkit built specifically for Huawei Ascend chips, directly challenging NVIDIA's CUDA lock-in effect; Manus has restarted as Manus 2.0 with a valuation of $4 billion, launching an always-on personal agent Cue, directly challenging Meta's Muse product, highlighting that the competition for personal agents has become a key battleground in Chinese AI this year.
