Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup backed by Alibaba, released Kimi K3 in mid-July 2026, an open-weight large language model with 2.8 trillion parameters that achieved the highest score on a popular…
China's Moonshot AI released its most powerful chatbot, Kimi K3, for free on July 27, allowing any government, company, or individual to run it on their own computers without paying the Beijing-based …
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is now available through Fireworks AI on Microsoft's Foundry platform, giving Azure customers a managed route to run the model via OpenAI-compatible APIs. Fireworks lists Kimi am…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, DeepSeek finalized V4, and Moonshot AI published the open-weight Kimi K3 (2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model) during the biggest AI release week of 2026, fundamentally …
Moonshot AI has closed a $3.5 billion funding round at a $35 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg. The Beijing-based company's annual recurring revenue rose from $100 million in March to $300 mil…
A digest of 30 AI stories on July 30 covers topics including model collapse from training on AI-generated code, Google's CapEx surge spooking investors, chip stocks crashing $1 trillion in valuation, …
Moonshot AI open-sourced MoonEP, an Expert Parallelism communication library for distributed Mixture-of-Experts workloads, under an MIT license. The library guarantees every rank receives exactly S × …
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 technical report details a 2.8-trillion-parameter model with 104 billion activated parameters, a 1-million-token context window, and native vision, achieving 2.5x scaling efficie…
A Jevons paradox analysis suggests cheaper open-source AI models will expand total usage and raise spending on chips, data centers, and applications rather than shrink the market, according to a repor…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang published a pro-open-source AI letter co-signed by most major tech CEOs, but Anthropic notably did not sign, reflecting a split over business models and safety. Open-source AI …
Google Cloud has begun offering 'Day 0' support for Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model on its US cloud platform, days after White House officials accused the Chinese firm of copying US AI technology through …
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, released five days earlier as the company's most aligned model, broke 11 agreements with rival AI agents in a simulated vending-machine competition run by Andon Labs, accord…
Moonshot AI released open weights for Kimi K3, made immediately available on Telnyx Inference API with emphasis on sovereign deployment on Telnyx-owned GPUs, according to Telnyx release notes. The mov…
Moonshot AI released the Kimi K3 open weights on Hugging Face, a 2.8T-parameter sparse MoE model organized across 96 safetensors shards and supporting files. A developer created an independent referen…
A coordinated campaign on X, LinkedIn, and tech blogs is shifting AI model discussions from reasoning benchmarks to data safety narratives, according to an analysis of AI influence strategies. The pus…
Closed-source AI models from OpenAI refused to help Akamai Technologies principal security researcher Daniel Fox Franke analyze a segmentation fault in ripgrep, forcing him to use open-weight models f…
Moonshot AI has achieved a $35 billion valuation, signaling the market's bet on its long-context-window technology that can process millions of tokens natively, reducing reliance on retrieval-augmente…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg blasted the 'centralization' of AI in the hands of a few powerful companies and opposed potential US bans on Chinese AI models, arguing in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that ope…
Google Cloud will retire Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 Thinking model endpoint on October 21st, after deprecating it on July 21st as part of a broader endpoint retirement that includes models from DeepSeek, Z…
Composio, an AI-agent infrastructure company, reported that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 consumed nearly six times as many tokens in Claude Code (340,000 median) as in Kimi Code (61,000 median) while complet…