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Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that scores 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, surpassing Claude Opus 4.8 (56) and ranking #1 on AutomationBench and BrowseComp. The…
Moonshot AI has temporarily suspended new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 service due to overwhelming demand that pushed GPU capacity to its limits over the past 48 hours, the company announced. Existing subscribers are un…
Thinking Machines, led by Mira Murati, released Inkling, a 975B open-weights model that companies can fine-tune via its Tinker platform without building GPU infrastructure, enabling startups to own specialized AI models.…
AI freelancers hit a revenue ceiling when they sell bespoke work because each project starts from zero and efficiency gains from AI get passed to clients as discounts under hourly billing. Productizing the service—offeri…
Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI leader Mira Murati, released its first AI model, Inkling, with 975 billion parameters including 41 billion active parameters, positioning it as a customizable, open-…
Korean retail investors face amplified losses as the KOSPI index corrects from 9,000 to 6,000 points, exacerbated by single-stock leveraged ETFs introduced by Korean regulators. Chinese startup Moonshot's new AI model, r…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based company behind the Kimi chatbot, is moving toward a Hong Kong IPO after releasing its Kimi K3 model, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight system that led the Frontend Code Arena benchmark w…
Ollama, the leading platform for accessing open AI models, announced it has raised $88 million from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and other investors. Founded by Docker veterans, Ollama now serves 8.9 million develope…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that over 400 former Apple employees now work at the AI company and that OpenAI engaged in trade secret theft, according to a TechCrunch report. The lawsuit could threat…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 open-source model has become the first to match frontier proprietary models like Claude 5 and GPT 5.6 on independent benchmarks, achieving frontier-level performance and slashing inference costs by …
Meta is in talks to lease computing power worth up to $10 billion to Anthropic, a deal that would allow Anthropic to scale its AI model training without massive upfront capital expenditure. The arrangement shifts cloud c…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI plans to list in Hong Kong within six months after its Kimi K3 model, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, outperformed rivals except Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6.…
Apple briefly overtook Nvidia on July 17, 2026, becoming the world's most valuable company for the first time in more than a year, with Nvidia at about $4.908 trillion and Apple at about $4.902 trillion after Nvidia reco…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi series of AI models, is targeting an IPO filing in Hong Kong in the second half of 2026 after its valuation surged from $4 billion to between $20 billion and $30 billi…
A team built a multi-agent system with an orchestrator, three sub-agents, and a memory layer to classify customer support tickets, but the task could have been handled by a single prompt with a well-written system messag…
Chinese startup Moonshot AI announced its Kimi K3 open-source AI model, claiming it matches or outperforms models from OpenAI and Anthropic, sending U.S. tech stocks tumbling. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.4% and the S&…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed on July 16, and the 8B model immediately landed at #1 on RTEB with a score of 78.5%, topping Voyage 4 Large, OpenAI text-embedding-3-large, and Cohere embed-v4. The model is available und…
Smaller, family-run businesses in mainland China are adopting artificial intelligence more readily than large enterprises, according to industry leaders at the inaugural Nusa Dua Forum in Bali. Zhou Yuxiang, founder and …
Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal AI model with a 1-million-token context window, at NVIDIA's GTC 2026, positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI and …
Netflix has acquired Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive for $587 million, marking a major investment in AI-driven content production. The deal, reported by Variety, positions Netflix to leverage InterPositive's techn…