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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3, a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Open-Weight Model That Rattles Chinese Tech and Chip Stocks
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, priced far below Western rivals, triggered a Friday selloff in Chinese AI and global chip stocks before demand forced a subscription pause.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling, Its First AI Model, a 975-Billion-Parameter Open-Weight System
Thinking Machines Lab shipped its first model, Inkling, an open-weight 975-billion-parameter system that tops US open-weight benchmarks but still trails China's leading models.
Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro Launch After Coding Falls Short, Wiping Out Nearly $200 Billion in Alphabet Value
Google's flagship AI model missed its promised June rollout after coding performance fell short internally, and Alphabet shares dropped 4.4% on the report, erasing about $200 billion in market value.
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower, a Diffusion Language Model That Doubles Generation Throughput Without Retraining
NVIDIA's open-weight TwoTower model reuses a frozen Nemotron backbone and trains only a denoiser tower, reaching 2.42x faster generation at 98.7% of baseline quality.
Meta Launches Muse Image, Then Pulls Its Photo-Tagging Feature Three Days Later Amid Privacy Backlash
Meta's first in-house AI image generator let users @-mention any public Instagram account to remix their photos; CAA and SAG-AFTRA opposition forced a reversal within days.
OpenAI Launches GPT-Live-1, a Full-Duplex Voice Model That Delegates Deep Reasoning to GPT-5.5
OpenAI's new full-duplex voice models listen and speak at once and hand complex queries to GPT-5.5, replacing Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 to the Public, Ending Its Government-Gated Preview
OpenAI moved its GPT-5.6 model family to general availability on July 9, after federal reviewers cleared the release that had restricted Sol, Terra, and Luna to trusted partners.
Mistral Enters Robotics With Robostral Navigate, an 8-Billion-Parameter Model That Steers Robots Using a Single Camera
Mistral AI has unveiled Robostral Navigate, its first robotics model: an 8-billion-parameter navigation system that guides wheeled, legged, and flying robots with one RGB camera and language instructions, scoring 76.6% on the R2R-CE benchmark in unseen environments.
SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.5, Its First Model Since Going Public and the First Built Jointly With Cursor, at $2 per Million Input Tokens
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5, trained alongside Cursor, is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Musk calls it 'an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.'
Ai2 Open-Sources MolmoMotion, a Model That Forecasts 3D Object Motion From Language Instructions, With a 1.16-Million-Video Dataset
The Allen Institute for AI released MolmoMotion, an open model that predicts an object's future 3D trajectory from a video, marked points, and a language instruction, plus a 1.16-million-video training dataset and a new benchmark.
Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Coding Model It Says Was Trained End-to-End on Chinese Chips
Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model under an MIT license, claiming it is the first trillion-parameter model trained and served entirely on domestic ASICs.
ByteDance Releases Seed 2.1 Pro and Turbo, Claiming It Matches Claude Opus 4.6 on Coding at Roughly 80 Percent Lower Cost
ByteDance unveiled its Seed 2.1 Pro and Turbo models at the Volcano Engine FORCE conference, claiming leading coding and agent benchmarks and a total cost of ownership close to 80 percent below Claude Opus 4.6.