October 10, 2025 · 24-Hour AI Briefing: Reflection AI Raises $2B Led by NVIDIA, Meta Tests TV App, Amazon Launches Quick Suite AI
In the past 24 hours, the AI landscape has seen major movements across open-source innovation, video platforms, and enterprise tools.
From a U.S. startup challenging DeepSeek’s dominance, to Meta’s push for big-screen experiences, and Amazon’s new AI suite for businesses — here’s what’s shaping the next wave of AI.
1. Reflection AI Raises $2 Billion, Valued at $8 Billion
U.S. startup Reflection AI has completed a $2 billion funding round, reaching a valuation of $8 billion. NVIDIA led the round with an $800 million investment, joined by Sequoia Capital, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and Citigroup.
The company aims to build an open-source AI ecosystem, branding itself as the “American DeepSeek.”
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DeepSeek has emerged as one of China’s leading open-source AI models, with DeepSeek-V2 and DeepSeek-Coder excelling in coding, mathematics, and multilingual benchmarks — all while remaining fully open and commercially usable.
Reflection AI’s positioning aligns closely with NVIDIA’s hardware-driven ecosystem, offering a Western counterpart to DeepSeek’s open-source vision.
However, with open-source leaders like Hugging Face, Mistral, Stability AI, and DeepSeek already competing fiercely, can Reflection AI carve out its own space — or is it entering the market too late?
2. Meta Plans Instagram TV App to Compete with YouTube
Meta is reportedly developing a TV app for Instagram, aiming to bring Reels and other video content to the big screen in an effort to challenge YouTube’s dominance in home entertainment.
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By extending Reels to TVs, Meta is targeting the growing segment of users who spend over three hours daily watching video content — much of it now on large screens.
However, the competition is fierce: TikTok already launched a TV version, while streaming giants like Netflix are capturing similar attention spans.
For Meta, the real challenge lies not in moving content to the TV, but in making it truly interactive and engaging enough to redefine big-screen social experiences.
3. Amazon Launches Quick Suite AI for Business Automation
Amazon has introduced Quick Suite AI, an enterprise-oriented AI toolkit featuring chatbots and virtual agents capable of analyzing sales data, generating reports, and automating workflows.
Priced at $20 per month, it integrates with tools such as Salesforce’s Slack for seamless collaboration.
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Unlike Microsoft 365 Copilot, Quick Suite focuses on vertical business use cases such as sales and customer operations.
Its “agent-based” design allows it to act like a digital colleague — pulling real-time insights and automating tasks across enterprise data systems.
The Slack and Salesforce integration gives it an immediate foothold within existing work environments, particularly among SMBs and mid-size enterprises.
Still, in an increasingly crowded market of AI tools, will companies really pay for another intelligent assistant?
From open-source innovation to consumer video and enterprise automation, the AI race continues to accelerate.
Whether it’s NVIDIA backing open ecosystems, Meta expanding user experiences, or Amazon embedding AI into workflows, one thing is clear — artificial intelligence is now shaping every layer of the tech economy.
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