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Open-source AI edge ↑ AI factories ↑ Lunar platinum ↑ Older moms ↑

Hi all,

Here’s your Monday round-up of data driving conversations this week — all in less than 250 words.

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1. Open-source can game ↑ DeepSeek-R1 now rivals o3 in reasoning games like Tetris, and Qwen3-235B beats Gemini-Flash-2.5 in Candy Crush—shrinking the proprietary gap.

   

2. AI factory boom ↑ Fueled by an “explosion” in AI demand, Nvidia reveals that 100 AI factories are under construction globally, including a significant investment in Taiwan.

3. Capable humanoids ↑ Figure 02’s accuracy in the package handling task improved from 88.2% to 94.4% after the training data was scaled up by 6x.