Rising Star: GLM-4.6 Ties for Global Lead on Code Arena, Signaling a New Era in Open-Source AI
China's open-source AI community has achieved a major milestone: Zhipu AI's latest model, GLM-4.6, has ascended to a global #1 rank (tied) on the highly competitive LiveCodeBench (LCB) leaderboard. This achievement, surpassing giants like DeepSeek and closely trailing GPT-4, demonstrates a dramatic leap in practical programming capabilities for models outside the U.S. tech sphere, reshaping the global landscape of code-generation AI.
Anysphere Secures $2.3B Series D at $9B Valuation for Cursor, Defining the Future of AI-Native Software Engineering
In a landmark deal for the developer tools sector, Anysphere, the company behind the revolutionary AI-first code editor Cursor, has raised $2.3 billion in a Series D funding round, catapulting its valuation to an estimated $9 billion. Led by returning investor Thrive Capital with major participation from Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, this colossal investment signals a profound industry bet: that the future of programming is not just aided by AI, but will be fundamentally re-imagined from the ground up by it. Cursor is rapidly transitioning from a powerful coding assistant into a full-stack, AI-driven operating environment for software creation.
