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AI Daily Brief — 7 October 2025

Tuesday belonged to digestion. Bloomberg’s deep dive labelled the back-to-back Nvidia $100B and AMD 6 GW deals “circular” — chipmakers funding or equity-tying the customer that then buys their chips — and pegged total OpenAI commitments at roughly $1 trillion. Sora 2 API formally went live with per-second billing (sora-2 / sora-2-pro tiers, $10 min top-up, text-to-video + image-to-video with native synced audio). The Apps SDK preview trailed 11 more partners due later in 2025: DoorDash, Uber, Target, Instacart, Khan Academy, AllTrails, Peloton, OpenTable, Tripadvisor, The Fork, Thumbtack. EvenUp raised $150M Series E at $2B+ for personal-injury legal AI, led by Bessemer with REV (RELX/LexisNexis), B Capital, SignalFire, Adams Street, Premji, Bain, HarbourVest, Lightspeed, Broadlight — doubling its valuation in under a year. Google rolled out Gemini Enterprise as the workplace “front door,” grounding Gemini in customer data with central agent governance; early adopters: HCA Healthcare, Best Buy.

Top stories

  • Bloomberg: $1T “circular” AI boom. Feature labels Nvidia-AMD-OpenAI deal stack “circular” — chipmakers funding/equity-tying the customer that buys their chips — and pegs total commitments at ~$1T, raising bubble concerns. via Bloomberg
  • Sora 2 API GA with per-second billing. sora-2 and sora-2-pro tiers, per-second from $0.10/sec. Text-to-video + image-to-video, native synchronized audio. $10 minimum top-up. via OpenAI
  • Apps SDK trails 11 more partners. Coming later in 2025: DoorDash, Uber, Target, Instacart, Khan Academy, AllTrails, Peloton, OpenTable, Tripadvisor, The Fork, Thumbtack. via OpenAI
  • EvenUp raises $150M Series E at $2B+. Personal-injury legal AI, led by Bessemer with REV (RELX/LexisNexis), B Capital, SignalFire, Adams Street, Premji, Bain, HarbourVest, Lightspeed, Broadlight. Total raised: $385M. Doubled valuation in under a year. via Fortune
  • Google opens Gemini Enterprise. Workplace “front door” — grounds Gemini in customer data, lets employees build/deploy/centrally govern AI agents. Early adopters: HCA Healthcare, Best Buy. Direct competitive answer to AgentKit. via Google Blog
  • OpenAI/Ive screenless hardware reportedly stuck. Reports flagged the Jony Ive AI device bogged down by privacy, “personality” and compute-supply problems — no firm launch date despite Chris Lehane saying it was “on track” for end-2025. via TechCrunch
  • Codex full product (no longer preview). Powered by GPT-5-Codex with Slack integration. OpenAI disclosed Codex itself built ~80% of Agent Builder’s visual canvas in under 6 weeks. via VentureBeat

Who shipped

OpenAI took Sora 2 API GA and trailed 11 more Apps partners. Google shipped Gemini Enterprise. EvenUp closed Series E. Anthropic, xAI, Meta, DeepSeek, Alibaba quiet.

Open-source pulse

No tier-1 Chinese model launch on Oct 7. Activity continued around DeepSeek V3.2-Exp and Qwen3 series. Reflection AI’s $2B round still being staged for Oct 9.

Money, infra & hardware

Bloomberg’s “circular deals” framing reset the AI-capex conversation overnight. The trillion-dollar narrative folds NVIDIA’s $100B OpenAI commitment, AMD’s 6 GW MI450 with warrant, Samsung/SK Hynix’s 900K-wafer-per-month DRAM LoI, and Stargate’s $400B+ buildout into a single read. EvenUp’s $150M is the day’s frontier round.

Quiet corners

No marquee arXiv paper specifically dated Oct 7. Samsung SAIL Montréal’s Tiny Recursive Model (TRM, 7M params) paper landed Oct 8.

By the numbers

  • $1T — Bloomberg’s total OpenAI vendor-customer-investor commitment estimate
  • $0.10/sec — Sora 2 API floor billing rate
  • 11 — additional Apps SDK partners trailed for later 2025
  • $150M / $2B+ — EvenUp Series E / post-money
  • ~80% — share of AgentKit’s Agent Builder canvas built by Codex itself
  • Most-mentioned company: OpenAI
  • Quietest segment: open-source releases

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 7 October 2025.