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This Week in AI (Aug 30-Sep 5): GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 in same week; Moonshot files IPO

05 Sep 2026 By Ke Yan, CFA
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Abstract: We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and M&A this week: OpenAI and Anthropic refreshed frontier models while Moonshot started its Hong Kong IPO process. MiniMax powered HUMAIN's Arabic sovereign model, Alibaba refreshed Qwen, and Artificial Analysis kept new US frontier releases at the top of the ranking. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, Anthropic expanded compute financing, and AI infrastructure demand flowed through hyperscalers, hardware vendors, chips and memory.

SK Hynix (000660 KS) Samsung Electronics (005930 KS) MINIMAX (100 HK) MediaTek (2454 TT) KNOWLEDGE ATLAS (2513 HK) TENCENT (700 HK) BIDU (9888 HK) ALIBABA (9988 HK) Apple (AAPL US) Alibaba (BABA US) Baidu (BIDU US) Dell Technologies (DELL US) Alphabet Inc. Class A Common Stock (GOOGL US) Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock (META US) Microsoft (MSFT US) Nvidia (NVDA US) Blue Owl Capital (OWL US) SLB (SLB US)

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SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, MINIMAX, MediaTek, KNOWLEDGE ATLAS, TENCENT, BIDU, ALIBABA, Apple, Alibaba, Baidu, Dell Technologies, Alphabet Inc. Class A Common Stock, Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock, Microsoft, Nvidia, Blue Owl Capital, SLB

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