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Saritha Rai

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Asia AI Reporter for Bloomberg @business @technology @BW Tips - SRai33@bloomberg.net

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Where the US and China Collide on AI: Five Flashpoints Read the Explainer www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Where the US and China Collide on AI: Five Flashpoints Read the Explainer www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The global AI industry needs to earn $6 trillion in annual revenues by 2031 to justify the capital being deployed to build data centers around the world, a new Bain & Co. report says www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The global AI industry needs to earn $6 trillion in annual revenues by 2031 to justify the capital being deployed to build data centers around the world, a new Bain & Co. report says www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump-Xi Summit leaves the US-China AI race without rules Read our AI Today newsletter www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... #AI Sign up here to subscribe www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump-Xi Summit leaves the US-China AI race without rules Read our AI Today newsletter www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... #AI Sign up here to subscribe www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Tough AI Questions Looming Over the Trump-Xi Summit: Both superpowers see AI as the new focal point of their economic rivalry as Trump sits down with Xi at the White House. For now, neither trusts the other’s motives, and neither wants to slow down www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Tough AI Questions Looming Over the Trump-Xi Summit: Both superpowers see AI as the new focal point of their economic rivalry as Trump sits down with Xi at the White House. For now, neither trusts the other’s motives, and neither wants to slow down www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When Trump and Xi meet at the White House next week, AI will be the most consequential issue looming over the summit between the two superpowers. Both view AI as entwined with their economic futures but neither trusts the other to manage its risks www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
DeepSeek newest V4.1-Flash is sending fresh jitters thru global rivals like Anthropic & OpenAI, and Chinese peers including Moonshot & Zhipu The AI model charges as little as a fraction of a cent per million tokens, ramping up pressure on rivals www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
DeepSeek newest V4.1-Flash is sending fresh jitters thru global rivals like Anthropic & OpenAI, and Chinese peers including Moonshot & Zhipu The AI model charges as little as a fraction of a cent per million tokens, ramping up pressure on rivals www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Google & Cathay Pacific use AI to tackle aviation's top climate headache: contrails In early operational trials, Google's AI algorithms achieved a 40% decline in the warming impact of "condensation trails" by prompting pilots to make flight adjustments bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Google & Cathay Pacific use AI to tackle aviation's top climate headache: contrails In early operational trials, Google's AI algorithms achieved a 40% decline in the warming impact of "condensation trails" by prompting pilots to make flight adjustments bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An unparalleled investment boom fueled by AI! Global data center spend will reach $31.6 trillion thru 2050 (and could go as high as $50 trillion) to meet the world’s growing appetite for AI, according to new PwC report. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI #datacenters
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An unparalleled investment boom fueled by AI! Global data center spend will reach $31.6 trillion thru 2050 (and could go as high as $50 trillion) to meet the world’s growing appetite for AI, according to new PwC report. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI #datacenters
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Trillion $ question! A humanoid outsprinted & broke the human 100-meter record, one beat the world high jump record, another pulled off a ballroom dance gracefully - all in China last week. And yet, humanoids await their ChatGPT moment. Could be a 10-year wait? www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Trillion $ question! A humanoid outsprinted & broke the human 100-meter record, one beat the world high jump record, another pulled off a ballroom dance gracefully - all in China last week. And yet, humanoids await their ChatGPT moment. Could be a 10-year wait? www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
AI tokens could be India's newest export AM Intelligence, an Indian AI infra co, has ordered 9,000 Nvidia VeraRubin systems, aiming to be among Asia's first adopters of the advanced compute platform AM aims to be among the leading AI token exporters globally www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
AI tokens could be India's newest export AM Intelligence, an Indian AI infra co, has ordered 9,000 Nvidia VeraRubin systems, aiming to be among Asia's first adopters of the advanced compute platform AM aims to be among the leading AI token exporters globally www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A Bangalore-based voice AI startup is in crowded race to build human-sounding voices, with an AI model that scores higher vs OpenAI & ElevenLabs Murf AI's Falcon 2 costs $0.01/generated min; it's faster than rivals, responds in less than 100 milliseconds www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A Bangalore-based voice AI startup is in crowded race to build human-sounding voices, with an AI model that scores higher vs OpenAI & ElevenLabs Murf AI's Falcon 2 costs $0.01/generated min; it's faster than rivals, responds in less than 100 milliseconds www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why China’s Affordable AI Is a Worry for Silicon Valley! Chinese AI models are cheaper and more adaptable than the preeminent US platforms, and benchmarks suggest they’re now almost as proficient. How did that happen? www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why China’s Affordable AI Is a Worry for Silicon Valley! Chinese AI models are cheaper and more adaptable than the preeminent US platforms, and benchmarks suggest they’re now almost as proficient. How did that happen? www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated over 3 billion downloads, becoming the world's No.1 open-weight AI model Chinese developers such as Alibaba push capable models that are relatively cheap & easy to adapt, gaining traction beyond China www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated over 3 billion downloads, becoming the world's No.1 open-weight AI model Chinese developers such as Alibaba push capable models that are relatively cheap & easy to adapt, gaining traction beyond China www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The latest from the little AI lab in Hangzhou: DeepSeek quadruples peak prices of its flagship AI models as it sets about amassing billions of dollars of investor capital and prepping for an IPO www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The latest from the little AI lab in Hangzhou: DeepSeek quadruples peak prices of its flagship AI models as it sets about amassing billions of dollars of investor capital and prepping for an IPO www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Meet some of the millions of factory employees, recycling unit & warehouse workers whose newest side hustle could be ... AI & Robotics research! A Deep Dive into the robotics race to collect videos of humans working to teach machines worldly skills www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Meet some of the millions of factory employees, recycling unit & warehouse workers whose newest side hustle could be ... AI & Robotics research! A Deep Dive into the robotics race to collect videos of humans working to teach machines worldly skills www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Talk about a head start! China’s humanoid robot makers commanded over 97% of global shipments in the first half of 2026, according to new industry data, sealing the country’s against US rivals like Tesla, Figure AI and Agility in a nascent field www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Talk about a head start! China’s humanoid robot makers commanded over 97% of global shipments in the first half of 2026, according to new industry data, sealing the country’s against US rivals like Tesla, Figure AI and Agility in a nascent field www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
DeepSeek, which stunned Silicon Valley with its low-cost, capable models, has abruptly announced 'significant' price increases, surprising move from a lead player in the hard-charging Chinese AI industry www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... Sign up here for AI Today bloomberg.com/account/news...
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
DeepSeek, which stunned Silicon Valley with its low-cost, capable models, has abruptly announced 'significant' price increases, surprising move from a lead player in the hard-charging Chinese AI industry www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... Sign up here for AI Today bloomberg.com/account/news...
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
China's unleashing a spate of frontier-pushing AI models, rapidly narrowing the gap with Silicon Valley Companies that can't offer frontier AI models or market-disruptive pricing could end up in what's called the Death Zone www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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China’s AI Blitz Creates ‘Death Zone’ for Rival US Model Makers
A flurry of model launches from China’s AI sector is rapidly narrowing the gap with Silicon Valley and creating what’s been described as a death zone for anyone without frontier-pushing technology or ...
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
China's unleashing a spate of frontier-pushing AI models, rapidly narrowing the gap with Silicon Valley Companies that can't offer frontier AI models or market-disruptive pricing could end up in what's called the Death Zone www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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China’s AI Blitz Creates ‘Death Zone’ for Rival US Model Makers
A flurry of model launches from China’s AI sector is rapidly narrowing the gap with Silicon Valley and creating what’s been described as a death zone for anyone without frontier-pushing technology or ...
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A quartet of China's top AI scholars & industry experts has taken their world model startup to $1.48B valuation, among a handful of such global unicorns PsiBot's models learn from real-world data collected with bespoke hardware(gloves, humanoid robots). www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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China’s Psibot Becomes Latest AI Startup to Hit $1 Billion Value
PsiBot is raising close to $100 million of funding at a $1.48 billion valuation, joining a growing roster of Chinese AI startups capitalizing on interest in the burgeoning field.
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A quartet of China's top AI scholars & industry experts has taken their world model startup to $1.48B valuation, among a handful of such global unicorns PsiBot's models learn from real-world data collected with bespoke hardware(gloves, humanoid robots). www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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China’s Psibot Becomes Latest AI Startup to Hit $1 Billion Value
PsiBot is raising close to $100 million of funding at a $1.48 billion valuation, joining a growing roster of Chinese AI startups capitalizing on interest in the burgeoning field.
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Beijing's GigaAI is discussing a Hong Kong IPO for soon as this year + it's on the cusp of closing a $3B funding round. That'll make it the most valuable world model startup in China, and globally one of the first world model makers to go to IPO bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Beijing's GigaAI is discussing a Hong Kong IPO for soon as this year + it's on the cusp of closing a $3B funding round. That'll make it the most valuable world model startup in China, and globally one of the first world model makers to go to IPO bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee's startup 01.ai is raising pre-IPO funding, targeting a 2027 Hong Kong IPO. After building AI models in China's competitive landscape, the startup went through a brutal reset. Beijing HQ'd 01.ai sells AI services layered on open models www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee's startup 01.ai is raising pre-IPO funding, targeting a 2027 Hong Kong IPO. After building AI models in China's competitive landscape, the startup went through a brutal reset. Beijing HQ'd 01.ai sells AI services layered on open models www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
On a video conference call from Hangzhou this Spring, one of China’s hottest startups held an unusual four-hour pitch meeting with potential investors. “We’re a group of very ordinary people,” said Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek’s elusive founder. Read more: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
On a video conference call from Hangzhou this Spring, one of China’s hottest startups held an unusual four-hour pitch meeting with potential investors. “We’re a group of very ordinary people,” said Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek’s elusive founder. Read more: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Malaysia is about to debut an AI prime minister! PMX AI, the AI avatar of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has agentic capabilites, is trained on speeches & policies, can converse with citizens, guide them thru services, and even suggest jobs & courses www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Malaysia is about to debut an AI prime minister! PMX AI, the AI avatar of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has agentic capabilites, is trained on speeches & policies, can converse with citizens, guide them thru services, and even suggest jobs & courses www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
AI agents and cool use cases: A startup that helps enterprises build AI agents proved the technology’s value in the most practical way possible: by deploying one during its own fundraising! Read more www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
AI agents and cool use cases: A startup that helps enterprises build AI agents proved the technology’s value in the most practical way possible: by deploying one during its own fundraising! Read more www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
AI startup Twelve Labs is raising $100M from Amazon, NEA, Naver etc to accelerate AI models for video The Seoul & Silicon Valley-based startup's models can search & understand vast archives of Hollywood studios, sports franchises etc, making them monetizable www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
AI startup Twelve Labs is raising $100M from Amazon, NEA, Naver etc to accelerate AI models for video The Seoul & Silicon Valley-based startup's models can search & understand vast archives of Hollywood studios, sports franchises etc, making them monetizable www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is live tomorrow. Please hop on! Live Q&A: What's Next for Meta After Picking an Outsider to Lead WhatsApp? www.bloomberg.com/sessions/202... #AI
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