Model launchesMoonshot's Kimi K3 Spurs Debate Over Open Models and Commercial PowerChinese startup Moonshot released the open-weight Kimi K3 model, including a 2.8-trillion-parameter variant that has stirred global attention.2 min read
Model launchesGoogle launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber: a lightweight model for scalable vulnerability discoveryGoogle introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight variant of its Flash family fine-tuned to find, validate and help patch software vulnerabilities.4 min read
Model launchesXi Jinping Champions Open-Source AI as China Seeks Global LeadershipChinese leader Xi Jinping used his first appearance at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference to promote open-source AI and position China as a contender to reshape the global AI order.2 min read
Model launchesMoonshot AI releases K3: 2.8T-parameter open model but running it remains costlyMoonshot AI unveiled K3, a 2.8‑trillion‑parameter model with a million‑token context window and announced plans to fully open‑source its weights on July 27.2 min read
Model launchesMoonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Narrows U.S. Lead in Advanced ModelsMoonshot AI’s new Kimi K3 model has rapidly entered the global AI top tier, outperforming several recent U.S.3 min read
Model launchesOpenAI launches GPT-Live voice models that listen and speak continuously while outsourcing hard reasoning to GPT-5.5On July 8 OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, new full‑duplex voice models that can process incoming and outgoing audio simultaneously and hand complex queries to a background reasoning model (GPT‑5.5).5 min read
Model launchesMoonshot AI's Kimi K3 challenges U.S. models with large open-weight systemChinese startup Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, an open-weight multimodal model with 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million-token context window, that early blind tests ranked above several leading U.S.3 min read
Model launchesMoonshot AI releases 2.8T Kimi K3, pledges open weights by July 27, 2026Chinese lab Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model it calls the first open 3T-class model, available now via its website and API with a promise to release weights by July 27, 2026.4 min read
Model launchesMoonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a 2.8‑trillion‑parameter open‑source language modelBeijing-based Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8‑trillion‑parameter large language model that the company says is now the largest open‑source model in the world.7 min read
Model launchesThinking Machines Lab publishes Inkling, an Apache-2.0 open-weights multimodal modelThinking Machines Lab, led by Mira Murati, released Inkling, an Apache‑2.0 licensed multimodal Mixture‑of‑Experts transformer with 975 billion parameters (41 billion active) trained on roughly 45 trillion tokens.3 min read
Model launchesMira Murati’s Thinking Machines launches Inkling — an open-weight model pitched for customization over top performanceThinking Machines, the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling, an open-weight multimodal model that the company says is not the strongest overall but is designed to be fine-tuned by customers via its paid Tinker platform.2 min read
Model launchesMoonshot's Kimi K3 may narrow gap between open-weight models and Anthropic's Opus 4.8According to Financial Times sources, Moonshot AI’s upcoming Kimi K3 model — reportedly a 2–3 trillion-parameter open-weight model — could match or surpass Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 and will be released in the coming days.2 min read
