Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based startup behind the Kimi chatbot, paused new subscriptions to its Kimi K3 model over the weekend of July 18-19 after daily sales surged at least sixfold following the mod…
The Trump administration is reviving efforts to impose de facto bans on foreign open-source AI models, triggered by last week's launches of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8, according to a…
GitHub added its first open-weight AI model, Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI, to the Copilot model picker on July 1, 2026, allowing users in regulated industries to audit the model's weights under an …
Moonshot AI has paused new signups for its Kimi K3 chatbot just four days after its July 16 launch, citing overwhelming demand that strained GPU infrastructure. The Beijing-based startup said existing…
Singapore stocks fell on Monday, with the Straits Times Index (STI) down 0.2% to 5,498.95, amid a tech rout in Asian markets triggered by the launch of Chinese startup Moonshot AI's Kimi 3.0 model, wh…
Alibaba Cloud launched Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter large language model, on July 19, claiming it is second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 in performance. The launch intensifies China's …
Moonshot AI paused new sign-ups for its Kimi K3 model after demand pushed its GPU cluster to capacity. The Chinese lab said on X that demand over 48 hours "pushed close to the limits of our current ca…
China's Moonshot AI and Alibaba released new AI models that they claim rival top US systems from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost, intensifying pressure on Silicon Valley and narrowing A…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model, developed by former Carnegie Mellon graduate Yang Zhilin, has demonstrated capabilities that narrow the gap between Chinese and U.S. AI, with the U.K. AI Safety Institute …
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model that topped the Frontend Code Arena leaderboard on day one, releases its full open weights on July 27. The MXFP4 weights require approximately 1.4…
OpenAI head of strategy Dean Ball sparked a debate on X by suggesting the Trump administration could create regulatory risk around open-weight Chinese AI models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, which recen…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI temporarily paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand pushed GPU capacity to its limits, the company announced on X. The model, released on Friday as a…
Moonshot AI has suspended new consumer subscriptions for Kimi after demand for its newly launched Kimi K3 model surged beyond projections, pushing its compute infrastructure close to capacity. The com…
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 leads open-weight language models as of July 20th with a score of 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, seven points ahead of its nearest rivals. Chinese labs dominate the t…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a ~2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model released in mid-July 2026, trails Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol overall but beats closed models on coding, agen…
White House AI and crypto special adviser David Sacks attacked cybersecurity restrictions on American AI models on July 19, citing a developer's claim that Chinese model Kimi K3 fixed 15 security bugs…
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model matches frontier proprietary models on coding benchmarks for the first time, scoring in the range of GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet on SWE-bench Verified. The sparse …
Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8, an open-weight model with over one trillion parameters that handles images, video, documents and text, claiming it is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5. The Qwen team says…
Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal model, on July 19, 2026, at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, claiming it is 'second only to Fable 5' among be…
Alibaba's Qwen team on July 19 unveiled Qwen 3.8, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal AI model that the company says is 'second only to Fable 5' — a reference to Anthropic's top-tier Claude model — th…