According to Odaily Planet Daily, in a recent funding round co-invested by Alibaba (09988.HK) and Tencent Holdings (00700.HK), artificial intelligence startup Dark Side of the Moon is seeking to raise its valuation to $10 billion, hoping to capitalize on strong investor interest in Chinese AI model startups. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that the company, which develops the Kimi chatbot, initiated new funding talks in late January to meet investor demand. Just about a month prior, the company completed a $500 million funding round at a valuation of $4.3 billion. Sources also stated that existing investors, including Alibaba, Tencent, and 5Y Capital, have committed over $700 million in the first tranche of this latest funding round. (Jinshi)

According to Huoxun Finance on February 17, OnchainLens detected that the whale "0x15a4" has cleared its short positions in ETH and BTC, making a profit of $1.575 million. However, due to previous losses, its net profit is only about $85,000.

According to Huoxun Finance on February 17th, spot gold prices extended their losses, touching $4860 per ounce, a 2.60% drop on the day. New York gold futures fell 3.00% to $4886.00 per ounce; New York silver futures plunged 7.00% to $72.51 per ounce.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, SoftBank and Ampere Computing have launched a joint project aimed at improving the efficiency of CPUs running small artificial intelligence models. The two companies plan to create a low-latency, high-efficiency inference environment as a key technology for next-generation AI infrastructure.

In the past hour, total liquidations across the network reached $10.34 million, with $8.15 million from long positions, with $2.20 million from short positions. BTC liquidation $4.45 million, ETH liquidation $1.81 million.