Highlights
- Anthropic prices IPO at $70-78/share, up to $1.4T valuation
- Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon to all users
- MiniMax open-sources H3-Image, 4K images in 10 seconds
- Mercor raises $750M Series D at $20B valuation
- Meta's three Muse models land on Google Cloud Model Garden
Headlines
[Anthropic IPO priced at $70-78 per share, Nasdaq debut on November 19]
On November 10, Anthropic filed an amended S-1 setting its IPO price range at $70 to $78 per share for 825 million Class A shares under ticker ANT, with pricing on November 18 and Nasdaq trading on November 19, targeting a valuation of up to $1.4 trillion in what could be one of the largest IPOs in history. The company disclosed Q3 revenue of $16.96 billion, up 47% sequentially, and plans a retail allocation of about 20%, far above the typical 5%-10%. (Source: CNBC)
[Gemini 4 Carbon opens to all: tops Artificial Analysis index at 59]
On November 10, Google announced that Gemini 4 Carbon is now available to developers, enterprises and consumers. The model ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 at 59 and scores 88.2% on the SEC-bench Pro cybersecurity benchmark. The introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens rises to $4/$20 after November 30. (Source: Google Blog)
Products & Tech
[MiniMax H3-Image: open-source SOTA that generates 4K images in 10 seconds]
In the early hours of November 11, MiniMax released and open-sourced its image generation model H3-Image. Derived from H3 with a 33.1-billion-parameter DiT architecture, the model generates 4096x4096 4K images in under 10 seconds, five times faster than mainstream models, supports up to 16 reference images, and claims the strongest instruction following among open models. Huawei Ascend, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and other chip makers completed Day 0 integration, with weights live on Hugging Face. (Source: Zhi Dongxi)
[Grok 4.8 soft rollout begins this week for select subscribers]
Elon Musk said on November 10 that Grok 4.8 has finished pretraining, reinforcement learning is underway, and a soft rollout to some Grok Bot subscribers arrives later this week. The 2.5-trillion-parameter model was trained on xAI's rewritten C/C++ stack; no official announcement or benchmarks have been published yet. (Source: explainx)
IPO & Fundings
[Mercor raises $750M Series D at $20B valuation, doubling in a year]
On November 10, AI training-data company Mercor announced a $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation, double its $10 billion mark from October 2025. Investors include Nvidia, Salesforce, Benchmark, General Catalyst and Zoom, with capital earmarked for its model evaluation and post-training infrastructure business. (Source: Reuters)
[Anthropic founders to sell $1.75 billion in IPO shares]
Disclosures show Anthropic's co-founders will sell roughly $1.75 billion in shares in the IPO. The company has also disclosed about $900 billion in purchase and lease commitments, roughly $70.7 billion due within 12 months, mostly for compute and infrastructure. (Source: Dataconomy)
Open Source & Research
[H3-Image weights open: 6-step distilled sampling, 68.65GB of weights]
H3-Image distills diffusion sampling to a fixed 6 steps, ships about 68.65GB of weights, and supports deployment via SGLang, vLLM-Omni, diffusers and ComfyUI. It reuses the Qwen3-VL text encoder, covers resolutions from 4096x4096 up to 6272x2688, and needs no external upscaler. Requests above 16MP are half price in the first week. (Source: PANews)
Company & People
[Meta's three Muse models land on Google Cloud as Zuckerberg and Pichai trade posts]
On November 9, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Muse Ember, Muse Spark 1.3 and Muse Wonder are live on Google Cloud Model Garden, with Sundar Pichai welcoming the arrival. Muse Ember is Meta's smallest, most efficient model, built for high-volume agentic tasks with a 1M-token context; third-party benchmarks put it near Claude Haiku 5.5 performance at about a third of the cost. (Source: Economic Times)
[Anthropic grants free usage reset to all paid subscribers]
After recent issues consumed more allowance than intended, Anthropic is offering Pro, Max, Ultra and Team paid users a free full reset across all models and limits, claimable until December 10. (Source: AIToolsRecap)
Policies & Data
[China's AI export-control consultation closes November 15]
On October 16, China's Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology proposed adding 23 AI technologies - including large models, agents, compute clusters and information processing - to the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export. Core models at or above 2 trillion parameters or ranking top-10 globally would see weights and source code controlled, with open-source public-domain technologies exempt; public consultation closes November 15. (Source: MOFCOM)
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