AI Giants Race for Custom Chips; SF Mayor Demands Robotaxi Rules - AI Daily Brief
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The AI industry is breaking free from the monopolistic grip of a single giant, pivoting toward a self-reliant and deeply layered ecosystem. From OpenAI and Meta to Zhipu, major LLM developers are now building their own chips to reduce dependence on NVIDIA. At the same time, LM Studio has launched Bionic, a local Agent that brings open models to edge devices. Viewed together, the surge in inference demand is simultaneously driving a distributed transformation in compute sovereignty and model deployment—making the divergence between centralized cloud infrastructure and local autonomy irreversible.
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🤖 OpenAI, Anthropic and others accelerate custom AI chip development
Asian Times deep analysis reveals OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, DeepSeek, and Zhipu AI are accelerating custom AI chip development to meet surging inference demand. This trend signals a shift from Nvidia reliance to independent hardware control, reducing external dependency.
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⚖️ SF Mayor Luli Urges California DOT to Strengthen Autonomous Driving Regulation
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie wrote to California Department of Transportation after Waymo robotaxis caused a major traffic jam on July 4, urging stricter autonomous vehicle operation rules to ensure reliability during major events. For autonomous driving companies, this means facing tighter scrutiny on incident response and operational reliability, potentially hindering expansion of commercial operations.
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