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•1Sarvam AI is closing a $300-350M Series B at a $1.5B valuation led by Bessemer with Nvidia, Amazon and HCLTech, India's first major sovereign-AI unicorn round.•2Tencent launched Hy3 Preview, a 295B-parameter MoE model, and swapped DeepSeek out of its Yuanbao chatbot in favour of the new in-house technology.•3Nissan committed to fitting AI-driven Level 2-plus hands-free driving from UK startup Wayve into 90 per cent of its future vehicle line-up.•1Sarvam AI is closing a $300-350M Series B at a $1.5B valuation led by Bessemer with Nvidia, Amazon and HCLTech, India's first major sovereign-AI unicorn round.•2Tencent launched Hy3 Preview, a 295B-parameter MoE model, and swapped DeepSeek out of its Yuanbao chatbot in favour of the new in-house technology.•3Nissan committed to fitting AI-driven Level 2-plus hands-free driving from UK startup Wayve into 90 per cent of its future vehicle line-up.
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