Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. holds a 36% preferred equity stake in Moonshot AI, which paused new consumer subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand hit compute limits, while Alibaba simultaneousl…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model, on July 19, offering it at a 90% discount during preview. The launch comes two days after Moonshot AI unveiled its Kimi K3 model with 2…
Moonshot AI released downloadable weights for its Kimi K3 model on July 27, following the unveiling of the 2.8 trillion-parameter system earlier in July, which Reuters reported as the world's largest …
Reuters reported in late June that Zhipu AI's next GLM-5.5 model is expected to launch in August, with a JPMorgan forecast placing it above one trillion parameters, but as of August 3, Zhipu has not c…
DeepSeek released V4-Flash on July 31st with an average cost of $0.03 per benchmark task, the lowest among well-known AI models tested by Artificial Analysis, according to Reuters. The model scored 50…
Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model, which immediately became the highest-ranking Chinese text model on the Arena.AI leaderboard, trailing only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 a…
Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter sparse MoE model with a 1 million token context window, to global developers on August 3, 2026, with open weights promised next week. The model …
A Reuters investigation with the Jamestown Foundation found that Chinese military-linked researchers have used model distillation on outputs from OpenAI and Anthropic frontier models to train AI syste…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal AI model that trails only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 in internal benchmarks, with open weights scheduled for release next …
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model scales to 2.8T total parameters with 104B activated per token, using hybrid attention, Attention Residuals, and Stable LatentMoE to support 1M-token agentic trajectories. T…
A new book, 'From Lab to Life: How AI Works in China' by Collin Hogue-Spears, published by Gatekeeper Press on August 4, details China's AI regulatory system, emphasizing that compliance and filing, n…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model with a 1 million token context window and 896 experts, is now available, but claims that it ran on a 64GB MacBook Pro are unverified. …
Bloomberg News reported that Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI has access to approximately 20,000 Nvidia Hopper-generation chips through a computing agreement with Alibaba Group, providing key compute fo…
On July 27, China's Moonshot AI released its most powerful AI model, Kimi K3, as free open-source software, allowing any government, company, or individual to run and retrain it without paying licensi…
Moonshot AI released the open weights for its K3 model, a 2.8-trillion-parameter sparse MoE with MXFP4 quantization, ranking #1 on Frontend Code Arena and #3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence In…
AMD's Instinct MI355X GPUs now run Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model at 952 tokens per second per node, undercutting Nvidia's B300 on cost per token despite Nvidia's 1.65x raw through…
Three AI model releases in late July 2025 — Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, and Microsoft's MAI models — signal that the competitive axis has shifted from capability to cost, with fr…
CostPerPrompt, a new web tool launched on Hacker News, provides live pricing for 232+ AI models and calculators that estimate real-world costs for chatbots, agents, RAG, voice AI, and GPU rental, with…
On July 28, 2026, Moonshot AI, Anthropic, and Microsoft each released major AI models, signaling a market shift toward cost-efficient and open-weight models. Moonshot AI open-sourced Kimi K3, a 2.8-tr…
On July 16, Beijing-based Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight AI model, which independent accounts call the largest ever built. Three days later, Moonshot paused new sig…