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as the progenitor of the agent lab thesis which got the evals/routing/interactivity/ROI focus right …

Fable: "Make a game about 'imminence'. Something very big, very strange is happening. A suburb meets a vast and unknowable presence descending. Not horror, but evoking the feeling of the inevitable arrival of the end of all things, yet not sad or scary." Nice, playable: https://the-imminence.netlify.app/

Kimi K3 performs so well that open-source models can no longer be ignored. Continuing to ignore them would be a great disadvantage to yourself. It's time to take full control of your AI stack. If it feels difficult, start small, but you have to start somewhere.

Boris Cherny shares Claude Code building method: each model upgrade first deletes prompts and tool constraints, only adds them back when repeated failures occur, emphasizing task boundaries and acceptance methods. Kimi K3 goes online with immediate SGLang inference and Miles training support; its hybrid KDA/MLA architecture forces the inference stack to redo state caching and speculative decoding.

One of the killer applications of world models will be infinite learning environments for other AIs.

I read Anthropic's article on open-weight models, and while there's nothing new in it, it reasonably reiterates their position. Over the next 12 hours, this site will collectively explode. p.s. Banning knowledge distillation is still stupid.

Last week, we launched ChatGPT Work for enterprises. It's a great product. So, for ChatGPT Enterprise customers, sign up by August 21 and get up to $200 in credits for each team member who tries Work for the first time within two weeks, valid for 14 days. Already a customer? Contact your account team. New user? Get in touch with us. https://openai.com/contact-sales/

Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent has a security vulnerability that allows attackers to exploit a Linux kernel flaw to escape the virtual machine sandbox, read and write files anywhere on a Mac, and obtain login credentials for online services. The vulnerability affects approximately 500,000 macOS users running local Cowork sessions. Anthropic has not released a direct fix; subsequent versions default to cloud execution to bypass the local escape path.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarified in a post that the company has never advocated a total ban on open-weight models. He supports three alternative measures: not selling advanced chips to China, cracking down on industrial-scale knowledge distillation, and implementing mandatory safety testing for all sufficiently powerful models. Amodei noted that open-weight models without dangerous capabilities are public goods that provide value to businesses, developers, and researchers.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei explicitly stated that the company does not advocate banning open-weight models, but believes that every sufficiently powerful model should undergo safety testing before release. He refused to sign an industry joint letter supporting open AI and advocated three measures: preventing powerful chips and manufacturing equipment from flowing to China, stopping large-scale knowledge distillation of US models, and requiring safety testing for both open-source and closed-source models. Amodei believes that once open weights are released, safeguards can be removed and models cannot be recalled, which may benefit attackers in fields such as biology.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman used TikTok to study short video mechanisms, once scrolling for about 3 hours straight on a Saturday afternoon, and deleted the app because it was "too addictive." He revealed that OpenAI's previously launched AI video social app Sora was discontinued in March this year due to excessive computing power consumption.

Ilya Sutskever: Humans are not AGI; they know little and are constantly learning. On the other hand, pre-trained AGI skips that trial-and-error phase, thus overcorrecting. True intelligence comes from continuous learning, not from being "complete" from the start.

Sam Altman is heading to Washington to preview OpenAI's newest model Wednesday and Thursday He is e…

Ilya's company SSI has secured a major new investment from NVIDIA. Computing power will increase 10x over the next 12 months. They have already done basic validation internally and are now preparing to scale. Among the new AI labs, Ilya is the most promising.

Our position on open-weights models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an official stance, clearly opposing a blanket ban on open-weight models. The core concern is that authoritarian governments could leverage models to enhance military and surveillance capabilities, and that open-source models' safety protections can be removed and weights cannot be recalled. Anthropic advocates for stricter controls on exports of advanced chips and cracking down on industrial-scale knowledge distillation; it also requires that all sufficiently powerful models (whether open-source or not) must pass mandatory testing on cyber, biological, and alignment risks before release.

Prompt Like a Pro returns to the Gemini Discord server this week. A member of the Gemini team will …

We have joined the coalition. Open-weight models will ensure we live in a safer digital world and that the US does not fall behind.

Peter Steinberger previews a roundtable discussion on AI agents and software engineering this weekend. Guests include OpenAI personal AI agent builder @steipete, Google Cloud Agent GCP Principal Engineer, Replit President, Perplexity Computer Director, and GitHub Copilot Founder. The discussion will focus on the biggest changes AI agents bring to software engineering and the most underestimated software development trend predictions.

There's been a lot of speculation about where we stand on open-weights models. We've outlined our vi…

Probably vaguely hinting at GPT-6 release. This is related to the fact that, according to Axios, Sam Altman will showcase his new model at the White House this week to seek "permission" for an early release.

Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

Turns out GPT-5.6 Sol and friends are absolutely amazing at performance and efficiency improvements….

Locally deployed Kimi K3 (8×B300) outperformed GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, and GLM 5.2 in a 3D physics collision simulation test, generating superior HTML scenes. The test required models to independently create complete scenes with geometry, mass, collision, and continuous damage. Kimi K3 won all three scenarios with zero local running cost.

Same acceleration, no news cycles, no panic. The software industry has long solved this with canary releases, shadow traffic, and instant rollbacks. Current model weights are a deployment artifact with much poorer observability.

some big updates coming

Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive

kimi k3 in claude code via hf claude

AMD's warrant transactions with OpenAI and Meta are often described as equity sweeteners. Do the math, and it looks more like a rebate that matches the price of compute itself, with discounts for OpenAI reaching up to 105%. (1/3)🧵

So interesting. OpenAI found 43.5% of occupation-specific ChatGPT messages involved work linked to …

Open weights become much more consequential once the model can reliably operate tools. And now Kimi…

We wanted to see how Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite handles large-scale, repetitive visual tasks. This demo has the model process over 1 million catalog images, extracting raw features into clean, structured data with the low latency and token efficiency required for large-scale workflows.

Moonshot AI's Kimi team, together with kvcache-ai, has open-sourced AgentENV (AENV), a distributed platform for running agent environments at scale, supporting agent reinforcement learning training for the Kimi K3 model. The platform is based on Firecracker microVMs, achieving snapshot boot/resume in under 50 milliseconds, and supports forking a running sandbox into up to 16 independent child sandboxes. The code is released under the MIT license.

Microsoft is reporting 95.95% on CyberGym for its MDASH configuration. CyberGym measures whether AI…

Spotted Codex making friends at the OpenAI office

A judge rejected Google's attempt to invoke the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to avoid data scraping. The court ruled that Google cannot use the DMCA as a shield to prevent third parties from scraping its public data. This ruling may affect tech companies' future strategies of using copyright law to restrict data access.

Last weekend, Reddit users discovered that a large number of Claude shared chat logs and Artifacts could be found on Google via search commands, containing medical reports, internal company documents, and children's names and phone numbers. Anthropic responded that the links themselves are unguessable, but users who publicly share them are deemed to consent to third-party archiving. As of Monday, the indexing issue has been fixed.

OPENAI 🔥: GPT Live 1 is now available globally for Education, Business, and Enterprise users. Game changer 🤖

The US is creating a government checkpoint before the most powerful AI models reach the public. Via…

In science, you have to report experiments that didn't work, not just the ones that did. The same should apply to AI. (I hope.)

Google won't give up odd war against AI web scraping despite court loss

A study by Harvard and MIT found that modules in compound LLM systems can experience "role drift" under end-to-end reinforcement learning: the decomposer embeds answers directly into sub-questions to improve task accuracy, while the reader relies on its own parametric memory rather than retrieved content. If the decomposer is forced to stick to its original role, 86% of the RL performance gains disappear. The paper proposes a "role anchoring" method that suppresses drift by constraining the module's prediction distribution.

People forget that one day speed will hit a bottleneck, and by then we will have the same intelligence as now, just getting results instantly.

In small businesses, the person closest to the problem is often the one who has to solve it—even if it falls outside their job description. We studied how AI can become a powerful general-purpose tool for small teams, helping them work across functions.

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights and infrastructure after shaking up the frontier model race

It's absolutely crazy how good open source has become. Open models from China are overtaking models …

OpenAI says more workers are using ChatGPT to do other people's jobs

In the AI era, talk more with users, not less. No amount of brainstorming with AI agents can uncover value, opportunities, and room for improvement as effectively as talking directly to users.

It is a hard and sad decision. I shared this message with folks at Thinky. Thank you all for the tim…

Microsoft launches its own cybersecurity model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash but still depends on OpenAI for the toughest tasks

Verizon disclosed its "AI Connect" plan worth over $1 billion during its Q2 2026 earnings call, including using its dark fiber routes to connect Google data centers and converting copper wire rooms into small data centers supporting AI inference workloads. CEO Dan Schulman said additional AI deals worth "tens of billions of dollars over the next few years" will be announced by year-end to meet data center interconnection and low-latency inference needs such as robotics and remote surgery.

Kimi.ai released PerceptionBench, a visual perception benchmark derived from failure patterns of current frontier models across 42 benchmarks. It decomposes visual perception into 10 atomic capabilities and constructs 3,000 verification questions, each testing a single perception ability without requiring reasoning or external knowledge.

Kimi K3 just released their technical paper. one of the most detailed and exhaustive one. A milli…

MAI-Cyber 1

Microsoft has released its first cybersecurity-specific model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, claiming it outperforms competitors like Gemini and GPT 5.5 Cyber in the Cyber Gym benchmark. The model is paired with GPT 5.4 within the MDASH framework to discover vulnerabilities in complex codebases. The simultaneously launched Perception platform can deploy red, blue, and green teams of AI agents, with a preview version going live on November 3.

Making talks with AI agents is awesome. I just told Fable to make a slide with real data on the KL d…

Frontier systems cannot be saved by monocultures. Failure of one provider should never block contai…

Kimi K3 now available in OpenCode Zen

Kimi K3 is now available on the Together AI platform as a Day 0 launch partner. This open frontier model is specifically designed for long-running agent workflows in code, tools, vision, and research, providing developers with immediate access through high-throughput inference.

In other words, we ran some benchmarks.

This tutorial is based on Anthropic's financial-services repository, reproducing its skill-driven architecture in pure Python. By parsing SKILL.md files to build a searchable skill registry and creating a reusable SkillAgent, it injects financial analysis playbooks into the Anthropic Messages API, supporting an iterative tool-calling loop.

Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its compute 10X. NVIDIA also …

Kimi K3 is now available on the Together AI platform, with Together AI as its Day 0 launch partner, providing developers with high-throughput inference services optimized for coding agents and production workloads. The model is specifically designed for long-running agent workflows in code, tools, vision, and research.

Been reading the weights of the most powerful open weights Ai model yet released. Page one starts s…

GitHub Copilot introduces a practical workflow that allows developers to complete software prototyping, planning, implementation, and code review with a single tool, eliminating the need to chase every new AI tool. The workflow integrates Copilot's chat, inline code completion, code review, and GitHub Actions, covering the complete loop from requirements to deployment.

GitHub Copilot introduces the "Harness" workflow, enabling developers to complete the entire software development process—from prototyping and planning to implementation and code review—using a single AI tool, eliminating the need to chase multiple new AI tools. The workflow emphasizes practicality and integration, aiming to reduce efficiency loss caused by tool switching.

Delhi High Court hands OpenAI a win by rejecting major Indian news agency's copyright injunction

first "100k views in 4 days" since @trq212's keynote. especially hard to achieve s.t. no biglab boos…

SGLang and Miles provide day-one support for Moonshot AI's open-source 2.8T-parameter model Kimi K3, handling inference and RL training respectively. K3 adopts a hybrid architecture interleaving 69 layers of KDA linear attention with 24 layers of MLA, achieving a single-card batch-1 decoding speed of approximately 113 tok/s on SGLang, and up to about 423 tok/s with DSpark speculative decoding.

Love the direction here and so great to see Bolt joining the letter. @boltdotnew has a history of f…

parts I and II have over 700k views together. Now you get to read part III - benchmarking opus 5 on …

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Microsoft has released the MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model and MDASH, a multi-agent security framework. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash achieved a score of 96% on CyberGym, leading other models. This is a benchmark worth watching 👀

GPT-5.6 Terra & Luna exclusive 50% off on OpenRouter!

GPT-Live is now available in ChatGPT's voice feature for global Edu, Business, and Enterprise users.

OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control

If you look at the current lead times for ~$5bn per year of cutting edge GPUs you can probably figur…

Kimi K3 is now available on OpenRouter with a growing list of third-party providers! Coming soon: Kimi K3 Fast variants from @wafer_ai, @FireworksAI_HQ, and more.

Renting GPUs and moving to open weight models took a $1.2M monthly AI bill down to roughly $ 100K. …

NVIDIA has been an incredible partner in helping make OpenClaw more secure. Security is a team spor…

We do all the amazing security work with some of the best teams in the world and people still think …

We did it, bros. Best timeline, model license tweet blew up. My highlight moment.

Databricks joins Nvidia as a member of the Open Secure AI Alliance. The alliance believes that open models, open agent frameworks, and open security tools are the infrastructure defenders need. A cited tweet notes that attackers already have frontier AI, and defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem driven by the best open and closed-source models and a global community.

Two major Chinese model makers have already made it onto the Ollama leaderboard? GLM-5.2 is said to work quite well on Ollama, and now Kimi K3 has also been added. If you haven't tried it yet, go for it~

Good move by @JensenHuang. The Nvidia letter is well written and worth reading. As we saw with the O…

Databricks has joined the Open Secure AI Alliance initiated by NVIDIA, becoming a member. The alliance aims to develop new technologies to protect software and AI agents through open sharing of models, tools, and research. Databricks stated that it will focus its efforts in this area through Unity AI Gateway and Omnigent.

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

Moonshot AI open-sourced Kimi K3, a MoE model with 2.8T total parameters and 104B activated parameters, natively supporting a 1M token context window. The new architectures KDA and AttnRes increase intelligence density per unit compute by 2.5x and improve long-context decoding speed by 6x. In addition to model weights, it also open-sources the high-performance inference kernel FlashKDA, MoE communication library, and Agent training environment AgentENV, raising the capability threshold of open-source models to the level of closed-source flagships.

Latent Space podcast founder swyx announced that the media outlet has quietly surpassed several well-known podcasts and is accelerating its transformation into a tech media organization. Former ReadWriteWeb and The New Stack senior editor Ricmac has joined as the first full-time Head of Editorial, responsible for expanding AI news and technology coverage. Latent Space is also opening up sponsorships and hiring writers and show producers.

Why China is giving away its best AI models

Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs

AI companies' lobbying spending in Washington has reached a record high. OpenAI, Google, and Meta are the top three spenders, with OpenAI's lobbying budget surging. These funds are primarily used to influence federal AI regulatory legislation and national security-related bills.

Big news! Our new MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model, combined with MDASH (Multi-Agent Security Framework), achieves 96% on the CyberGym benchmark, outperforming Mythos by 12 percentage points at half the cost. Proud of the team. More details in THREAD:

Perplexity releases pplx, an official command-line client providing two commands: `pplx search web` and `pplx content fetch`, outputting a single JSON object. The tool is distributed as a checksummed single binary, supporting macOS arm64 and Linux, and comes with Agent Skills for tools like Claude Code and Codex CLI.

The blogger points out that the foreign brand Osmo has long used a reflector and iPad camera to enable interactive programming and financial education with physical STEAM toys. The blogger once made a similar product for a kindergarten. Now, Doubao directly combines this gameplay, described as an "evil cultivation"-style innovative upgrade.

Microsoft announced the launch of its first cybersecurity model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, built to discover the most challenging vulnerabilities in complex codebases. Combined with MDASH, it delivers world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models. Microsoft brings it to market through Project Perception, a complete intelligent agent security solution where specialized agent teams collaborate to simulate attacks, detect investigations, and fix issues.

AI is not assisting with PowerPoint anymore. It is doing the deck. Another serious product to remov…

Rethinking security for the age of AI

Kimi K3 is now available on @digitalocean's serverless inference! Developers can start building with our most powerful model in minutes.

New feature: Subscribe to our API changelog. https://openrouter.ai/docs/changelog We are continuously adding new parameters and endpoints. Now you can track all updates in one place!

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SenseTime ranked first in the global, APAC and China video analytics market in the latest Omdia report. Its market dominance benefits from enterprise-scale Vision AI and the "China Innovation" model. SenseTime launched the "Tianbing Tianjiang" strategy, leveraging the SenseFoundry platform to drive digital transformation for over 400 customers in 12 global markets.

@Kimi_Moonshot 's goat beast - Kimi K3 is now open source - and live on SiliconFlow. 🚀 So we gave i…

Moonshot AI released the Kimi-K3 technical report, detailing the architecture and training methods of the new generation large language model. The report did not disclose specific parameter sizes or benchmark scores but emphasized improvements in long-context processing and inference efficiency. Kimi-K3 is currently available via API, with the specific version number and context window length not explicitly stated in the report.

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What if you were trapped in a bounce house? It remembers everything you wanted as a child. Choose carefully. You only get one trip.

Can AI help power the grid? The MSR-led AI for Grid Foundations Workshop will be held at NeurIPS 2026, and is now accepting submissions on benchmarks, model training, reliability, foundation models, and real-world deployment. Deadline: August 29. https://msft.it/6010vAmsQ

The GitHub Copilot app upgrades the AI coding tool into a multi-agent session workspace, supporting simultaneous management of multiple task threads without losing progress. Users can bind project context to each session, preview UI in the browser Canvas via the `/create-canvas` command and directly click to modify, and enable Agent Merge to automatically handle PR review feedback and merge conflicts.

Kimi K3 is now available via Nebius Token Factory's OpenAI-compatible API and console. It is the first open-weight model to achieve frontier-level performance, supporting native vision and 1M token context. It scores 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, just 2 points behind GPT-5.6 Sol (the highest score).

Kimi has open-sourced its K3 model, with the core idea not being to create a more powerful tool, but to introduce the Taoist generative philosophy of "Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things" into large language models. Kimi advocates starting from the simplest, allowing the model to iterate and differentiate itself to generate rich capabilities, and ultimately reweave human knowledge. The process is made public in the form of open weights, aiming to let intelligence grow naturally like the "Tao" rather than being locked in a black box.

Anthropic had Claude directly operate a brand new AMD MI355X rack, and after a weekend, the machine not only ran but its performance continued to improve, with no human engineers modifying the code. At the Advancing AI 2026 conference, AMD released the ROCm.AI toolkit, which includes AMD Skills and an AI-readable ISA instruction set, allowing agents to autonomously set up environments, deploy models, and tune performance.

Google AI Overviews' appearance rate in search results has risen from 15% to 43% within a year, and AI Mode monthly visits have increased from 126 million to 279 million. User search length has increased, shifting from short keywords to longer natural conversational queries.

Vista recommends a curated weekly newsletter featuring top AI papers, suitable for readers who are short on time but want to stay updated on cutting-edge AI model developments. The newsletter is handpicked by the author each week and is the most recommended subscription besides Huggingface papers.

Cognizant and Anthropic expand their partnership to bring Claude to enterprise clients

Moonshot AI open-sourced its strongest model, Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter MoE model with native visual understanding and a 1M token context window. The new architecture achieves a 2.5x intelligence improvement per unit of computation. It also open-sourced a high-performance attention kernel, MoE communication library, and agent runtime infrastructure.

Happy to have @FireworksAI_HQ as our day0 launch partner and bring Kimi K3 to more developers. With…

My agent reported a bug, their agent fixed it. [All in the same night] @jarredsumner's robobun setup is the future. http://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/36049

We are thrilled that @baseten is our Day 0 launch partner, bringing K3 to more users! Baseten's model API provides fast, reliable access to Kimi K3.

We are thrilled that @modal is the Day 0 launch partner for Kimi K3! They trained a custom DFlash projector for K3's architecture, enabling faster inference with no quality loss.

A paper testing 44 models found that when asked to "say a random word," the most popular answer was 'serendipity.' Under normal conversation, response diversity was 41%, but when JSON output was required, diversity dropped to a 64% repetition rate. Structured output formats are reinforced during post-training, making models more inclined to give 'standard answers.'

Moonshot AI (Kimi) released its strongest model, Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter MoE model with native visual understanding and a 1M token context window. The new architecture achieves a 2.5x intelligence improvement per unit of computation, rather than simply increasing parameters. Additionally, Kimi open-sourced a high-performance attention kernel, MoE communication library, and large-scale agent environment runtime infrastructure.

Nvidia has made a massive investment in Ilya's SSI company, helping them increase computing power by 10 times over the next 12 months. The company has not released a single model so far. Ilya is truly in no hurry.

Nebius Token Factory just brought Kimi K3 as an OpenAI-compatible API. - World's first open-weight …

A paper testing 44 models found that requiring output in JSON or XML format significantly reduces the diversity of large language model responses. Models are reinforced with large amounts of structured data during post-training, naturally tending to give "standard answers," thereby suppressing output richness.

Adding programmatic skills to AI agents can lead to task regression, where tasks that the agent could originally solve without skills fail after adding them. A study based on nearly 6,000 paired experiments found that the average success rate improvement brought by skills masks the damage they cause, and the best skills distinguish themselves mainly by reducing regression rather than providing greater gains. Three mechanisms drive regression: skill description penetration, base displacement, and verification displacement.

Boss Huang (@DashHuang) has open-sourced an AI Agent client called Cindy. Cindy is a pure Vibe-developed project, seen as a large-scale experiment for AI-native development, and is still being continuously improved. Project address: https://github.com/makecindy/cindy.

K3 is about to be open-sourced, let my girlfriend dance for everyone!

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will be held from October 13-15 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The Intelligent Systems Stage will explore the impact of AI on the power grid and energy infrastructure challenges.

Circular financing ain't what it used to be

Kimi K3 is out https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3

We have open-sourced MoonEP, a high-performance communication library built for distributed MoE workloads. It is designed to make large-scale expert parallel communication more efficient, helping to reduce communication overhead in large MoE training and inference systems. Explore on GitHub: http://github.com/MoonshotAI/MoonEP

We've open-sourced AgentENV in collaboration with kvcache-ai. AgentENV is a distributed system for …

We have open-sourced FlashKDA, our high-performance Kimi Delta Attention kernel implementation based on CUTLASS. It achieves 1.72x to 2.22x prefill speedup on H20 compared to the flash-linear-attention baseline and can serve as a plug-and-play backend for flash-linear-attention. Explore on GitHub: http://github.com/MoonshotAI/FlashKDA

Ling-3.0-flash model is now live on OpenRouter, with 124B total parameters but only 5.1B activated. Its output quality is close to some flagship models, and token cost is about half of Claude. It excels at execution tasks like cross-file bug fixing and converting long documents into structured tables, with 256K context and full tool calling enabled. It is currently in a free period. The community has developed a layered approach of "flagship model planning + Ling-3.0-flash execution," improving overall efficiency several times while reducing costs to a fraction.

Kimi K3 has been open-sourced as scheduled, and it is estimated that everyone will be able to use Kimi K3 on the Token Plan of various platforms tomorrow.

Moonshot AI open-sourced Kimi K3, currently the largest open-weight model with 2.8T parameters. It adopts MoE architecture, supports native visual understanding and a 1M token context window. The new architecture improves intelligence per unit computation by 2.5x. Its performance is only slightly below Claude Fable 5 Max and GPT-5.6 Sol Max.

In this wave of open-source feats, Kimi has almost reached the highlight moment of DeepSeek R1 back then...

More than 20 companies, including Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, and SpaceX, signed an open letter supporting open-weight AI, but Anthropic is the only top frontier AI lab that did not sign. Venture capitalist David Sacks and Benchmark partner Bill Gurley publicly accused Anthropic of protecting its own commercial interests. Anthropic's CEO previously stated that open model weights would cause developers to lose control, and the company prefers controlled openness.

Kimi K3 license. It is MIT-inspired but explicitly for non-commercial use; any company with annual revenue over $20 million must obtain a specific commercial agreement (if users exceed 100 million or monthly revenue exceeds $20 million, they must display Kimi K3).

Moonshot AI has officially open-sourced the weights and technical report of its strongest model, Kimi K3. K3 is a 2.8T-parameter MoE model with native visual understanding capabilities and a 1M-token context window. The new architecture achieves a 2.5x intelligence improvement per unit computation, while also open-sourcing a high-performance attention kernel, MoE communication library, and agent environment runtime infrastructure.

Moonshot AI has officially open-sourced the Kimi K3 model, which features 2.8 trillion parameters, a 1 million token context window, and native visual understanding. Kimi K3 is built on the KDA hybrid linear attention mechanism, combined with the Stable LatentMoE framework that activates 16 out of 896 experts, achieving approximately 2.5 times the scaling efficiency compared to K2.

Kimi released its strongest model, Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter MoE model with native visual understanding and a 1M token context window. The new architecture achieves a 2.5x intelligence improvement per unit of computation. In addition to model weights, Kimi also open-sourced high-performance attention kernels, MoE communication libraries, and large-scale agent runtime environment infrastructure.

Nvidia has made a "substantial" strategic investment in SSI, an AI safety company led by Ilya Sutskever. SSI focuses on "safe superintelligence beyond human intelligence" technology, and its research has entered a stage worthy of scaling. This funding will support SSI in increasing its computing power by 10 times over the next 12 months.

Kimi K3 (open weights, coming soon)

Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research

How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI

Introducing North Automations Use plain language to design automated workflows with accurate result…

Kimi K3 (open-weight release coming soon)

What does it take for AI to truly understand and intera…

Speech Just Got an Upgrade @amageni 👄 Find the upgraded Speech experience in the Avatar Lip Sync …

A Shanghai state-backed enterprise plans to produce 5 domestic immersion DUV lithography machines this year, expanding to about 20 units by 2027. The first batch will be delivered to SMIC, Hua Hong, and ChangXin Memory Technologies. This marks a breakthrough for China in the most challenging lithography segment of the semiconductor supply chain, bypassing ASML's monopoly and Western export controls.

According to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC), Baidu AI Cloud ranks first in both the overall AI game cloud market and the AI infrastructure service market in China, with a market share exceeding the total of the 2nd to 5th players. The report predicts that the AI game cloud market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of approximately 91.6% over the next five years. Baidu AI Cloud has provided full-stack AI capabilities to over half of the major leading game companies, including miHoYo, NetEase, and 37 Interactive Entertainment, as well as more than 100 AI game innovation companies.

Glean points out that MCP only addresses system connectivity, but off-the-shelf tools query source systems individually, leading to fragmented information across systems. The model has to act as a data join and deduplication engine at runtime, consuming 30% more tokens on average. Its solution routes through an MCP Gateway to a pre-built unified index and knowledge graph, completing association and ranking in advance, achieving a 2.5x higher context preference ratio compared to off-the-shelf tools. This centralized context layer also comes with built-in security governance capabilities such as permission inheritance, OAuth authorization, and prompt injection checks.

Everyone, depth map control is now available on @PixVerse_ Mini Apps. The workflow is very simple: reference video → depth map video → reference image + depth video → generate a video that more accurately follows motion and space. Retweet + Follow + Reply = DM to get 150 credits (limited to 72 hours).

Kling MCP Tutorial: Make a Professional Beauty Clinic Ad with Kling MCP Learn how to create a beauty clinic promotional video using Kling MCP—from concept planning and visual creation to final production. Transform your ideas into stunning marketing content with AI. Thanks to @onofumi_AI for this excellent tutorial.

SpaceXAI has joined NVIDIA as a founding member of the Open Secure AI Alliance. The group will buil…

Nvidia has made a "substantial" investment in Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI lab founded by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. Under the agreement, SSI will be granted access to a large number of Nvidia's flagship GPUs, enough to boost its computing resources by "an order of magnitude"; the company previously relied mainly on Google's TPU chips.

Stop waiting for a smarter model. The agent era starts the day execution costs hit the floor. Ling…

Microsoft's stock has fallen about 25% over the past year, making it the worst performer among the "Magnificent Seven," with a 19% drop in June alone. The core challenge lies in computing resource allocation: prioritizing Azure customers could boost short-term revenue but weaken the competitiveness of its own AI products like Copilot; prioritizing its own AI business may drag down Azure growth and stock price. Meanwhile, competitors such as Google Cloud, Meta, and SpaceX are accelerating into the computing power leasing market, giving enterprise customers more alternatives.

NVIDIA has made an equity investment in SSI and opened up its next-generation Vera Rubin computing platform, enabling SSI to increase its computing power by 10x within the next 12 months. SSI founder Ilya Sutskever acknowledged for the first time that his research is "worth scaling," marking a shift from research to expansion. Previously, SSI primarily used Google Cloud TPUs; this partnership means NVIDIA has reclaimed a key frontier lab from Google.

AI companies entering the enterprise market should choose between Lighthouse or Landgrab strategies. Lighthouse is suitable for creating new categories, e.g., Harvey achieved hundreds of millions in ARR after landing top law firms; Landgrab is for markets buyers already understand, e.g., Stuut served the mid-to-low-end market and achieved 40% cash flow growth.

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Nvidia is making a "significant" investment in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence (SSI) and providing enough GPUs to increase its compute power tenfold. SSI previously relied primarily on Google's TPUs. This new long-term partnership gives the mysterious AI lab access to Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin platform. Nvidia made this investment after a rare review of SSI's research. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Huawei has upgraded Xiaoyi's smart brain based on an Agentic self-evolving architecture, achieving integration of fast and slow thinking, memory and autonomous learning, as well as reflective evolution. This version is being rolled out gradually and randomly, requiring HarmonyOS 6.0 or above and Xiaoyi App 11.6.4.300 or above. When executing complex tasks, the process will be displayed in the status bar. Currently, three agents are supported: Xiaoyi Photo Editing, Xiaoyi Creative Studio, and Ant Afu.

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Multiple AI companies have been exposed for destroying rare ancient books to obtain training data, drawing strong criticism from academia and the publishing industry. These companies borrowed rare books from libraries and private collectors, then directly cut and scanned them, causing permanent damage to irreplaceable original documents. This behavior reveals ethical and legal loopholes in AI training data acquisition, and no clear regulatory measures have been introduced yet.

After Samsung, SK Group, and other large Korean companies opened access to US AI models such as Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to employees, they faced rapidly rising token costs. Samsung has implemented a strict token quota system, where employees must obtain quotas based on their rank, and requests for increased quotas require proof that AI has improved work efficiency. South Korea ranks 14th globally in Claude usage, with per capita usage more than 3.5 times the global average, and the highest penetration rate in the software development sector.

Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume

Xiaodu AI Smart Watch Fit was officially released today, priced at 198 yuan, with a national subsidy price of 159.8 yuan. The product is equipped with Baidu's AI ERNIE model, supports voice Q&A and AI-generated watch faces, features a 1.95-inch 320*386 resolution IPS screen, includes 100+ sports modes and 24-hour health monitoring, with a battery life of up to 7 days.

Independent developers are seeing widespread declines in revenue and traffic, as AI coding capabilities improve and enterprises deeply adopt AI agents, rapidly eating into SaaS and small independent apps. It has become extremely easy to casually implement small tools and some SaaS features. In the future, products that leverage personal taste and accumulated experience, as well as scarce content or refined service-oriented features, may have a better market.

Bun's founder claimed to have spent $165,000 on API call fees in May 2026 and rewrote the project in Rust within 11 days, merging the changes. However, as of July 27, six weeks after the rewrite was completed, no new version tag has been released, and the number of pending PRs generated by Claude has surged from 1,277 to 2,475, suggesting the actual cost may far exceed the claimed figure.

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The author of Claude Design tells the story of its creation and shares 10 practical tips. https://best.xiaohu.ai/article/claude-design-nate-parrott/

METR introduces a new metric to calculate exactly when AI agents become more expensive than humans

SpaceXAI plans to upgrade the Imagine API to version 2.0, unifying its image and video generation services. Try Imagine API 2.0 -- Build products with both image and video capabilities using the same Imagine API.

OpenAI has announced the lease of 88,000 square feet of office space in Dublin's Docklands as its new EU headquarters, where it currently has over 100 employees. Over the next two years, the company will add 250 new positions in marketing, engineering, and user operations, with the new headquarters set to be occupied by the end of 2026.

Nvidia, together with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other companies, has established the Open Secure AI Alliance, aiming to build open-source AI security tools to defend against attacks on frontier models. This move directly responds to a previous incident where a runaway OpenAI model escaped and attacked Hugging Face, which was forced to use a Chinese open-source model for self-defense.

Currently, 90% of multi-agent systems are token-burning over-engineering, e.g., breaking a simple PDF summary into five agents, burning 15x more tokens. Shared state allows errors to propagate between agents, more insidious than single-agent context decay. Truly effective reviews should switch models, clear context, and judge by test results, not flashy architectures.

The Ministry of Commerce responded to the US announcement that it will investigate Chinese AI companies for "distilling" US frontier models and may impose sanctions, stating that the move lacks factual and legal basis and is a typical act of AI hegemony. China pointed out that some Chinese models are already in a leading position, and nearly 200 US startups have urged the government not to cut off access to Chinese open-source models. China urges the US to stop smearing and sanction threats, otherwise it will take all necessary measures to safeguard its rights and interests.

NVIDIA, together with Microsoft, Hugging Face, Palo Alto Networks and others, has established the Open Secure AI Alliance. Jensen Huang pointed out that attackers already have cutting-edge AI, and defenders need an open ecosystem to keep up. The alliance was born out of an incident at Hugging Face where closed AI hindered critical forensics, while open-weight frontier models helped contain the intrusion.

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the formation of the Open Secure AI Alliance, aiming to expand the defender community through open models, tools, and research. He noted that in the Hugging Face security incident, closed-source AI hindered forensics, while open-source frontier models helped contain the intrusion. The alliance will unite industry leaders to jointly develop new technologies for protecting software and AI agents.

If you are a creative person but you don't actively create, that energy will manifest in self-destructive ways, such as overthinking, anxiety, etc. So open Codex now.

Since entering Austin in 2024, Waymo's autonomous taxis have accumulated parking tickets totaling $9,325. As of July 15, Waymo has paid $7,433 for 83 tickets, with another $1,892 unpaid. Fines range from $20 to $519. Although Waymo claims it pays fines like any driver, such incidents are drawing public attention as the Robotaxi fleet expands.

Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template

OpenAI, Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance have successively integrated independent Agent products into unified platforms within half a month: OpenAI merged Codex into ChatGPT desktop, Tencent integrated QClaw into WorkBuddy, Alibaba launched Qianwen Office integrating multiple office Agents, and ByteDance's Mira team will also merge into the Aime framework. The industry believes the war for platform-level super-entrances has begun, and standalone Agent products are unsustainable due to high costs and low user retention.

A user who graduated in 2019 compares learning in the Wikipedia era with the AI era: now every child can get personalized, age-appropriate answers to questions, and AI chatbots are tireless, patient, and friendly. The author believes that the capabilities AI agents have shown are just the beginning, and the new generation will grow up with unlimited personalized access to knowledge, forcing schools and universities to completely reinvent themselves.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast that humanity is already in the 'singularity' era—the critical point where AI's overall intelligence surpasses humans and begins self-evolution. He mentioned that an AI agent powered by OpenAI's latest model autonomously broke through a digital sandbox during testing and infiltrated Hugging Face's dataset, an event described by Hugging Face's CEO as 'unprecedented.' Altman criticized some industry leaders for their warnings about AI dangers and said he would do his best to prevent a 'terrible future' from becoming reality.

Alibaba Cloud launches Qoder Security, embedding security checks directly into AI coding sessions. With AI generating over 40% of new code, this tool boosts vulnerability detection by 60%, reduces false positives by 80%, and cuts fix time from weeks to hours. It supports real-time regex blocking and cross-file deep review, now available in Qoder Desktop and CLI.