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AI company growth news including hiring, new office openings, market expansion, and international growth initiatives.
SkyLabs Sets September KOSDAQ Listing, Discloses $18.4M H1 2026 Revenue and Otsuka Distribution Deal
SkyLabs, a South Korean medical-data company built around a ring-type cuffless blood pressure monitor, confirmed a KOSDAQ listing for September following an August 21 investor briefing in Seoul. Its f...
Moonshot AI Signals Japan Entry With Kimi Subscription Giveaway
Moonshot AI said on August 21 that Kimi is beginning its operations in Japan, posting the announcement through a newly established Japanese-language X account. The company paired the message with a gi...
Moonshot AI's Kimi Enters Japan With Paid-Plan Promotional Campaign
Moonshot AI's Kimi assistant has begun an official launch in Japan, according to Japanese outlet ITmedia. The rollout is accompanied by a promotional campaign, themed 'Hello, Japan,' offering free acc...
SelectStar Takes Datumo AI Evaluation Platform to Japan
SelectStar is bringing its Datumo AI evaluation platform to Tokyo as it targets Japanese enterprises deploying generative AI. The company, founded by six KAIST graduates in 2018, began with AI trainin...
Nvidia Plans Year-End China Shipments for a Tailored AI Chip
Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments by year-end of an AI chip designed specifically for Chinese customers, according to The Information. The reported product is intended as a targeted effort t...
AiDANT lands first Japan distributor for on-camera fall-detection AI
Vancouver-based AiDANT Intelligent Technology has signed Tokyo systems integrator Jasmine System as its first official Japanese distribution (VAR) partner, launching domestic sales in August 2026 of A...
Alibaba Cloud has brought its third data center in South Korea online, expanding its global network...
Alibaba Cloud has brought its third data center in South Korea online, expanding its global network to 104 availability zones. The new site adds enterprise cloud services and six Agentic AI services f...
Baidu is moving to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by year-end as part of a broader push to ree...
Baidu is moving to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by year-end as part of a broader push to reestablish its ERNIE large language model as a top-tier AI contenderestrategy. The company's leadershi...
Deepgram opens Singapore office to target APAC multilingual voice AI market
US-based voice AI company Deepgram has opened a Singapore office to serve the Asia-Pacific market, with a focus on multilingual support and enterprise-grade deployment flexibility. The expansion is ai...
ElevenLabs has launched ElevenLabs for Government, a dedicated initiative aimed at providing AI-powe...
ElevenLabs has launched ElevenLabs for Government, a dedicated initiative aimed at providing AI-powered voice and agent technologies to public sector organizations. The platform targets three key area...
3Billion (쓰리빌리언), a South Korean AI genetic diagnostics firm, has secured a contract to perform whol...
3Billion (쓰리빌리언), a South Korean AI genetic diagnostics firm, has secured a contract to perform whole-genome sequencing (WGS)-based newborn screening for 1,800 cases under the Korean Genome Newborn Sc...
Korean computer vision startup Superb AI (슈퍼브에이아이) won the overall track at the Foundation Few-Shot...
Korean computer vision startup Superb AI (슈퍼브에이아이) won the overall track at the Foundation Few-Shot Object Detection Challenge at CVPR 2026, climbing from fourth place last year to first. CTO Cha Mun-...
Cursor, the AI coding startup tracked in the AI Market Watch index with $3.373B in total funding, is...
Cursor, the AI coding startup tracked in the AI Market Watch index with $3.373B in total funding, is set to open its first office in India by the end of 2026. The company's Asia-Pacific and Japan head...
Wonderful, an enterprise AI company, is establishing a Mumbai office to expand its engineering, depl...
Wonderful, an enterprise AI company, is establishing a Mumbai office to expand its engineering, deployment, and go-to-market teams in India, capitalizing on the country's accelerating enterprise AI ad...
Microsoft's largest India data center hub is now officially operational in Hyderabad. The new cloud...
Microsoft's largest India data center hub is now officially operational in Hyderabad. The new cloud region, part of the company's $20.5 billion investment commitment to India's AI and cloud infrastruc...
Modal Labs opens London office to expand European AI inference presence
New York-headquartered AI infrastructure startup Modal Labs is opening a new office in London's Marble Arch area, the company confirmed. The space can accommodate up to 40 workers, with the company pl...
Anthropic brings Claude inference to India via Amazon Bedrock with in-country servers for sovereign AI
Anthropic is bringing in-country inference for its Claude model to India through Amazon Bedrock, enabling enterprise customers to process prompts on servers physically located within the country. The...
Iore (イオレ) launches official brand website for AI data center business
Tokyo-listed company Iore (株式会社イオレ) has launched an official brand website for its AI data center business, positioning GPU server sales and data center deployment as a core growth segment. The compan...
Cursor launches localized pricing in India ahead of SpaceX acquisition
Cursor, the AI coding startup being acquired by SpaceX in a $60 billion all-stock deal, has introduced Cursor Start — a ₹649/month (~$7) subscription for India, its first country-specific pricing tier...
**AWS launches $1B Forward Deployed Engineering division to accelerate enterprise AI agent production deployment**
AWS announced at the June 30 AWS Summit the formation of a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) division backed by $1 billion in funding. The unit will embed engineering teams directly into client opera...