Databricks' $100B Series K
Databricks reached a $100 billion valuation, becoming a centicorn with new Data (Lakebase) and AI (Agent Bricks) products. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Go in India at ₹399/month (~$4.55), offering significantly increased usage limits and UPI payment support, with plans for global expansion. The DeepSeek V3.1 Base/Instruct models were quietly released on Hugging Face, showing strong coding benchmark performance and adopting an Anthropic-style hybrid system. The Qwen-Image-Edit model from Alibaba is gaining traction with integrations and community pruning experiments. *"DeepSeek V3.1 Base outperforms Claude 4 Opus on coding benchmarks"* and *"ChatGPT Go offers 10x higher message limits and 2x longer memory"* highlight key advancements.