[AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing
a great week for open models continues.
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How a Blind Professor Saw Through His Students’ Cheating
This is the end of the university as you know it
🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences
Lila is betting that science, not the internet, is the last untapped source of training data. We went to find out what that actually looks like…
I've got an Inkling
links to read over the weekend
[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!
not much happened today
**Moonshot AI** launched **Kimi K3**, a frontier-class open-weights model with **2.8T parameters**, **1M-token context window**, and **native multimodal input**. It features novel **Kimi Delta Attention (KDA)**…
not much happened today
**Thinking Machines’ Inkling** launched as a new U.S. open-weight model with **~975B total / 41B active MoE**, supporting **text/image/audio input** and **up to 1M context** under…
[AINews] not much happened today
a continuation: Codex adding 1M users a day now.
5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026
At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.
How to use GPT-5.6
new desktop app and hosted sites in ChatGPT
not much happened today
**OpenAI's agent products** saw a **2.5x weekly usage growth** driven by **Codex + ChatGPT Work** and demand for **GPT-5.6 Sol**. JetBrains adopted Codex as a recommended…
[AINews] Codex usage up >10x in 6 months to 7M users, +1M in the past ~day; did Codex overtake Claude Code??
a quiet day lets us fact check some numbers against the sound of silence of Claude Code reporting...
What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026
Intelligence Can Be Rented But Taste Must Be Earned
How AI redefines the value of character
not much happened today
**Prime Intellect** released **verifiers v1**, a redesigned environment stack for **agentic reinforcement learning** and evaluations, improving efficiency by storing rollout traces as **message DAGs** to reduce…
6 months to live for open models
The most serious test to date of open source AI’s viability is happening right now.
[AINews] not much happened today
a quiet day after a week of nonstop model releases
Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratch
And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.
[AINews] OpenAI launches GPT 5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Codex becomes ChatGPT superapp
A big day for OpenAI.
not much happened today
**OpenAI** rolled out **GPT-5.6** featuring a new model stratification with tiers **Luna / Terra / Sol** and effort levels including **Max** and **Ultra**, introducing complex configuration…
Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
OpenAI GPT-5.6: AI Could Do Anything, Then It Met ARC-AGI-3
GPT-5.6’s ARC-AGI-3 score is scandalously bad and scandalously good
Grok x Cursor
More Fable, GPT-5.6 and new ChatGPT voice
[AINews] SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, first Opus-class model post Cursor acquisition
SpaceXAI continues to move faster than any other frontier lab on earth.