Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 quietly became the strongest open-weight coding model on the planet three weeks ago, and the discourse has been weirdly muted.
NVIDIA quietly shipped one of the most interesting open model architectures I've seen this year, and most of the coverage buried the lede.
DeepSeek V4-Pro grabbed headlines three weeks ago with an 80.
Most open models fight for the same throne: highest MMLU score, best SWE-Bench pass rate, flashiest reasoning demo.
On May 3rd, Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 walked into a live programming challenge and finished first — 22 match points, a 7-1-0 record — ahead of GPT-5.
Most open model launches follow a predictable script: bigger parameters, higher benchmark scores, a claim about beating GPT-something on MMLU.
Every multimodal agent demo I've seen follows the same script: chain a vision model to a language model, bolt on Whisper for audio, pray the latency...
Nine days ago Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.6 — a trillion-parameter MoE model that beats Claude Opus 4.
Meta's marketing for Llama 4 Scout leads with a seductive number: 17 billion active parameters.
754 billion parameters. 40 billion active.
DeepSeek dropped V4 Pro and V4 Flash on Wednesday, and the numbers shut up most of the skeptics before they could finish typing. V4 Pro — 1.
Twenty-four hours. That's how long GPT-5.
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 at the start of April, and the AI community immediately zeroed in on the benchmark charts.
Two weeks ago, Z.ai (the company formerly known as Zhipu AI) dropped an open-weight model that claims to beat Claude Opus 4.
Qwen's latest coding model has 80 billion parameters and uses 3 billion of them.
Llama 4 Scout hit 1.2 million downloads in its first two weeks on HuggingFace.
The most important thing Google shipped with Gemma 4 isn't a model. It's a license.
A Chinese AI lab just shipped the world's best coding model — 744 billion parameters, MIT license, trained entirely on Huawei chips — and most Western...
Three days ago, screenshots from DeepSeek's gray-scale test started circulating on Weibo.