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 unveils Kimi K3, the world’s first open 3T-class AI model, turning weeks of researcher work into a two-hour task.
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.
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 is the world’s largest open-weight model at 2.8 trillion parameters, ranking second only to Anthropic’s Fable 5 and signaling China’s rapid catch-up to American frontier AI.
Reflection AI signed a $6.3B deal with SpaceX for GB300 chips at Colossus 2 through 2029, aiming to end reliance on proprietary AI like Anthropic and OpenAI.
A new open-source TTS model clones any voice from a short clip with first-token streaming latency of just 54ms, thanks to a fully continuous architecture that preserves fine acoustic details.
Google’s new open-source DiffusionGemma model uses text diffusion to generate entire blocks of text in parallel, delivering up to 4x faster inference on NVIDIA GPUs.
NVIDIA’s Cosmos 3 is a breakthrough open model for physical AI that reduces training cycles from months to days. A new coalition of robotics leaders will advance open world models.