Google released three new Gemini Flash models — 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber — offering better efficiency and lower cost. Meanwhile, the much-anticipated Gemini 3.5 Pro continues to be delayed.
China’s Moonshot and Alibaba released K3 and Qwen3.8, claiming performance near GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 at lower costs, intensifying the US-China AI competition.
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is the largest open-weight model ever released at 2.8 trillion parameters, available under a modified MIT license. It signals that Chinese AI developers are circumventing US hardware constraints and matching frontier-class American models.
Unisound’s U2 is a new general-purpose LLM built for execution, not just conversation. It autonomously handles complex, multi-step workflows across office work, software engineering, and research.