We cover Sora's shift from video to robotics, a billion-dollar deal in AI-powered defense, and a cautionary study on AI agents. Read from your browser The Prompt Welcome to The Prompt, your Monday dive into the world of AI that puts Asia front and center. From Big Tech's power players to the region's scrappy disruptors, we cover it all. Subscribe to get full access to our AI reporting. Ensure our articles appear in your Google searches: Hello Betamax, Apps come and go, but the past week may have delivered one of the most high-profile closures in the AI era: OpenAI has shut down Sora, the text-to-video platform that hit one million downloads a week after its launch. So that's it - China's taking the AI video crown. Tech in Asia has written about a number of startups, many of them from China, that aimed to rival Sora. That includes Pixverse, which recently became a unicorn after raising US$300 million, pushing its valuation at US$1 billion. While Sora's...
We cover Sora's shift from video to robotics, a billion-dollar deal in AI-powered defense, and a cautionary study on AI agents. Read from your browser The Prompt Welcome to The Prompt, your Monday dive into the world of AI that puts Asia front and center. From Big Tech's power players to the region's scrappy disruptors, we cover it all. Subscribe to get full access to our AI reporting. Ensure our articles appear in your Google searches: Hello Betamax, Apps come and go, but the past week may have delivered one of the most high-profile closures in the AI era: OpenAI has shut down Sora, the text-to-video platform that hit one million downloads a week after its launch. So that's it - China's taking the AI video crown. Tech in Asia has written about a number of startups, many of them from China, that aimed to rival Sora. That includes Pixverse, which recently became a unicorn after raising US$300 million, pushing its valuation at US$1 billion. While Sora's...