According to CoinWorld.com, world model startup Odyssey announced the completion of a $310 million Series B funding round, valuing the company at $1.45 billion post-money. The round was led by Natural Capital, with participation from Amazon, Google Ventures, AMD Ventures, EQT, and In-Q-Tel. Additionally, individual investors including Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, Y Combinator President Garry Tan, and former Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt also participated. Odyssey has entered into a deep strategic partnership with Amazon AWS, making AWS its preferred cloud service provider. Odyssey will collaborate with Amazon Annapurna Labs to fully optimize its world models using the AWS Trainium AI accelerator chip. The Odyssey team stated that the development of world models is reaching a turning point similar to GPT-3, with the technology moving from research to disruptive, fundamental applications.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Barclays expects the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates unchanged in 2027, compared to its previous forecast of a 25 basis point rate cut in March. (Jinshi)

According to data from MSX.COM, stocks on the STAR Market continued to strengthen, with the STAR 50 Index rising by more than 5%. Heavyweight stocks such as Cambricon, SMIC, Huahong Grace Semiconductor, and Hygon Technology saw significant gains, with Cambricon rising 15.16% and SMIC rising 5.04%.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that analysts at Jefferies stated in a research report that the Trump administration's measures to restrict foreign entities' use of Anthropic's top AI models may be unsustainable in the long term. The analysts said that these stringent restrictions are difficult to implement and could harm the US AI system. They stated, "Many AI researchers and engineers in the US are foreign-born. Excluding them from cutting-edge models could slow research progress and even push some talent and application scenarios overseas, which is not what the US government wants." (Jinshi)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that less than a week after its record-breaking IPO, SpaceX announced the appointment of Roelof Botha, a longtime ally of Elon Musk and an investor at Sequoia Capital, to its board of directors as an independent director and member of the audit committee. The appointment is effective immediately. Botha becomes SpaceX's eighth director, but he does not represent Sequoia Capital on the board. Musk remains the company's chairman, CEO, and chief technology officer. (CNBC)