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NVIDIA Bets $200B on Vera, ByteDance Drops Open-Source Triple-Modal LLM

May 21, 2026 · Evening brief · 10 news · 3:35

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Huang bets $200B on Vera; Byte fuses Lance; Google DeepMind fires; Intuit axes 3K for AI

Today's Top 3 Headlines

  1. AI Industry News

    🤖 Jensen bets $200B on Vera chip, earnings hide killer move

    The Information: NVIDIA tags next-gen Vera chip at $200B internally, yet Q2 call stayed silent. AI builders may see 30% training-cost drop; investors face an earlier data-center architecture refresh.

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  2. AI Industry News

    🤖 3B LLM Lance: ByteDance open-sources image+video understanding & editing

    ByteDance's Smart Creation Lab open-sources Lance, a unified multimodal LLM with only 3B active params that handles image & video understanding, generation and editing. Devs gain one-stop "pic-to-video + edit" power with far less compute, slashing multimodal app cost and barrier.

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  3. AI Industry News

    🤖 Hassabis: Google reigns supreme in AI

    DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google AI still leads and unveils a bolder roadmap. Devs face 30% cheaper inference and faster LLM drops, shrinking the build window.

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  • 🤖 Intuit cuts 3,000+ jobs, goes all-in on AI
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  • 🤖 State funds swarm top AI unicorns
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