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2026-07-18
China’s DeepSeek released Kimi K3.1, an open‑weight LLM touted as the largest to date, claiming top scores on major coding benchmarks and beating Anthropic’s Claude on the Fable test. (YouTube, 2026‑07‑18)
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all briefs →- Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8‑trillion‑parameter, 1‑million‑token context, multimodal open‑source LLM that the reviewer claims outperforms GPT‑5.6 and other top models. The launch was announced on YouTube on July 17.
- NVIDIA added Blackwell‑powered T3000 and T2000 modules to the Jetson AGX Thor line, coupled with new Jetson software memory‑optimisation and agent‑skill stacks for edge AI workloads. (source: NVIDIA dev blog)
- Google’s Gemini 3.5 Pro was reported delayed again, with the channel hinting a 3.6 Flash version could appear soon 【https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVGZd6UsQ0k】.
- Meta quietly launched Muse Spark 1.1 and, according to a YouTube benchmark, it outperforms Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 and xAI’s Grok 4.5 on the Woaibench suite. The video claims a clear margin across multiple tasks. (source: YouTube)
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