China’s Moonshot Releases Kimi K3, Its Largest AI Model Yet
Chinese startup Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it says rivals Anthropic’s Claude, as the US-China AI gap narrows.
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Chinese startup Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it says rivals Anthropic’s Claude, as the US-China AI gap narrows.
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng’s net worth has more than doubled to $36 billion following a new funding round, making him the wealthiest founder among pure-play AI development companies, according to Bloomberg.
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 tied GPT-5.6 Sol for first on the SWE-Atlas-QnA coding benchmark, a narrow win that highlights the model’s real edge: efficiency and low cost.
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a coding and agentic model trained jointly with Cursor that undercuts rivals on price and token use, though it trails Fable 5 on benchmarks.
Alibaba will bar employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code from July 10 over alleged security risks, after developers found code that detects China-linked users.
Venice AI, a privacy-focused platform offering access to more than 200 AI models without storing user data, has raised a $65 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation.
As Washington limits Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s top models on security grounds, critics warn the restrictions are handing momentum to Chinese open-weight rivals like GLM-5.2.
OpenAI updated GPT-5.5 Instant, ChatGPT’s default model, to feel more conversational and handle advice, planning and shopping better across longer exchanges.
Cursor unveiled its first from-scratch AI model, an agent-first Git platform called Origin and an iOS app, days after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of its parent.
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a flagship coding model with a usable 1-million-token context, shipping it to paying subscribers first while withholding benchmarks, an API and open weights.
Google released DiffusionGemma, an open model that generates text in parallel blocks for up to four times faster output on local GPUs.
GPT-5.6 is expected in June with what OpenAI calls meaningful gains over GPT-5.5, arriving alongside a ChatGPT overhaul and shifting public-listing plans.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging binding, FAA-style safety testing for frontier AI models, marking a shift from the company’s earlier focus on transparency.
Warner Music Group has agreed to acquire Sureel AI, a multi-patented platform that tracks how AI models use music assets, artist voices, and likenesses. The deal strengthens WMG’s capacity to protect and monetize artist intellectual property across AI training and generation.
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a speech-to-speech audio model supporting more than 70 languages with near real-time continuous translation. The tool is available through Google Translate on Android and iOS, with enterprise testing underway in Google Meet.