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AI company growth news including hiring, new office openings, market expansion, and international growth initiatives.
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...
Hong Kong Cyberport launches 3,000 PFLOPS AI supercomputer, $3.6B fund to boost Chinese AI globalization
Hong Kong Cyberport, the city’s flagship digital technology hub, has activated a 3,000 PFLOPS AI supercomputing center and established a 30 billion HKD (~$3.6 billion) fund. The initiative is explicit...
Google Cloud launches new AI development initiatives for Africa including infrastructure, AI lab, and digital skillsets
Google Cloud announced a suite of initiatives to accelerate AI development in Africa at its inaugural Cloud Summit in Johannesburg, covering infrastructure, applied research, startup acceleration, and...
Rokid announces full-scale Japan expansion of AI glasses with 75 retail stores and AIOS platform
Rokid, the Hangzhou-based AI and AR smart glasses maker, held a launch event at Tokyo Midtown Hibiya on July 8, 2026, announcing its full-scale entry into the Japanese market. The company will begin s...
SiliconFlow files for Hong Kong IPO at $7.7B valuation despite mounting losses
SiliconFlow (硅基流动), a Beijing-based AI infrastructure company positioning itself as an open and independent token supply platform, has filed for a Hong Kong IPO under Chapter 18C rules. Founded in Aug...
Microsoft launches Frontier Company with 6,000-person team and $2.5B to embed AI engineers at customer sites.
Microsoft has established a new internal unit called Microsoft Frontier Company, dedicating 6,000 engineers and a $2.5 billion investment to a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) model that places AI s...
Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment
Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier Company, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The venture is focused on delivering suc...
Meta might launch its own cloud computing business. The company is weighing plans like selling acces...
Meta might launch its own cloud computing business. The company is weighing plans like selling access to AI models on its infrastructure or letting customers buy compute in a model similar to companie...