Welcome to today’s AI briefing

AI is reshaping everything from semiconductors to fashion. Tesla just locked in a multibillion‑dollar chip supply, Vogue readers are debating an ad built around a synthetic model, and China’s Zhipu is taking its next large model public and open source. We also look at two new alliances meant to harden China’s AI stack, Google DeepMind’s tool for rescuing Roman history, and a classic film re‑imagined for Las Vegas’s gigantic Sphere screen.

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1. Tesla secures $16.5 billion Samsung AI‑chip contract

Samsung will fabricate Tesla’s next‑generation A16 artificial‑intelligence chips at its long‑delayed Taylor, Texas plant in a deal running through 2033. ElonĀ Musk confirmed the arrangement on X and said Tesla engineers will help optimize yields. The contract revives a factory that had struggled to find anchor customers despite a $4.75 billion CHIPS Act subsidy and follows Samsung’s production of Tesla’s AI4 parts while TSMC handles the AI5 line.

2. Vogue faces backlash for AI Guess advert

Vogue’s August issue features a double‑page Guess campaign starring ā€œSeraphinne Vallora,ā€ a fully AI‑generated model identified only in fine print. Readers called the image ā€œdisturbingā€ and industry voices like plus‑size model FelicityĀ Hayward warned it threatens creative jobs and diversity gains. Supporters argue AI shoots are faster and cheaper. The controversy lands weeks after Condé Nast signed a content‑licensing pact with OpenAI.

3. Zhipu readies open‑source GLM‑4.5 and eyes Hong Kong IPO

Beijing‑based Zhipu, now branding itself Z.ai, will release GLM‑4.5, its largest open‑source model, as early as today while preparing a Hong Kong listing that could raise about $300 million. The launch joins a wave of Chinese firms open‑sourcing frontier models to win global mindshare and set domestic standards against U.S. rivals.

4. Chinese AI firms form two alliances to beat U.S. curbs

At the World AI Conference in Shanghai companies announced a Model‑Chip Ecosystem Innovation Alliance linking Huawei, Biren, MooreĀ Threads and LLM makers like StepFun, plus a second network under the Shanghai Chamber that counts SenseTime, MiniMax and Metax. Huawei showcased its CloudMatrixĀ 384 cluster said to rival Nvidia systems, while Tencent and Baidu demoed new 3D and digital‑human tools. The alliances aim to tighten cooperation across chips, models and infrastructure in response to U.S. export controls.

5. DeepMind’s Aeneas restores damaged Latin inscriptions

Aeneas was trained on almost 200,000 Latin inscriptions totaling 16 million characters and can predict missing words, estimate a fragment’s province among 62 Roman regions and date texts to within about 13 years. In tests with 23 historians the model provided useful context 90 percent of the time, even tackling landmark works like the ResĀ GestaeĀ DiviĀ Augusti. Researchers say the tool could cut years of manual cross‑referencing and open epigraphy to newcomers.

6. Sphere turns ā€œWizard of Ozā€ into an AI‑expanded spectacle

LasĀ Vegas’s 160,000‑square‑foot Sphere will screen a remastered Wizard of Oz from August 28. A 2,000‑person team is using AI to upscale the 1939 footage and outpaint beyond the original frame, creating new background scenery and even unseen angles of the actors while preserving the core film. Sphere Entertainment says the goal is to let audiences feel ā€œinside the studioā€ rather than alter the story itself.

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