Elon Musk announced that Grok's V9-Medium (1.5T) foundational model has completed training, incorporating significant Cursor data and preparing for reinforcement learning. The model is expected to be released in two to three weeks. In parallel, several companies announced funding rounds: Tianji Intelligence secured 1 billion yuan for its B and B+ rounds, valuing it near 10 billion yuan; Blue Dot Touch completed a multi-hundred million yuan C++ round; and Hige Technology raised over 300 million yuan in its C round. AI
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IMPACT Grok's new model release, incorporating significant data and nearing public availability, could enhance AI capabilities and competition.
RANK_REASON Elon Musk's announcement of a new Grok model version with specific details on training data and release timeline. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]