Moonshot's Kimi K3 goes live at $3 per million input tokens, roughly 40% below premium US models, as Xi pitches a China-led AI bloc from the WAIC stage in Shanghai.
Moonshot's 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model is live via API at $3 in and $15 out per million tokens, roughly 40% below premium US models. Open weights arrive July 27.
In his first extended AI remarks, Xi used the July 17 WAIC opening in Shanghai to cast Beijing as champion of open-source AI and promote a China-led World AI Cooperation Organisation.
Gemini 3.5 Pro is expected July 17 after a six-week delay attributed to Google scrapping the original base model and restarting pretraining.
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Join the founding list →Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, which the company describes as the world's largest open-weight model at 2.8 trillion sparse-MoE parameters, is now live via API at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, roughly 40% below premium US models. Independent benchmarks put it first in Frontend Code Arena and...
Continue reading arrow_outwardMoonshot AI put Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, live via API at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output, roughly 40% below premium US rivals, with open weights due July 27.
An Israeli airstrike on July 17 killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded 20 at a funeral in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.
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Xi's push for a China-led World AI Cooperation Organisation lands the same week Moonshot's aggressive Kimi K3 pricing gives Beijing's open-source pitch a concrete price tag.
Xi Jinping used the July 17 WAIC opening in Shanghai to cast Beijing as the champion of open-source AI and to promote a China-led World AI Cooperation Organisation against the US-led 'Pax Silica' initiative. Moonshot's Kimi K3, benchmarked first in Frontend Code Arena and second overall behind Anthropic, gives that positioning a working product priced well under US models.
Gemini 3.5 Pro is expected July 17 after a six-week delay that reporting attributes to Google scrapping the original base model and restarting pretraining over structural failures in recursive tool-calling. Google has not confirmed the date, specs, or pricing, so all circulating details remain unofficial.
New analysis details how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick withdrew on June 30 the export controls that had forced Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline for 18 days. The June 12 BIS 'is informed' letter, triggered by an Amazon jailbreak producing exploit code, gave Anthropic roughly 90 minutes to comply.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, which the company describes as the world's largest open-weight model at 2.8 trillion sparse-MoE parameters, is now live via API at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, roughly 40% below...
In his first extended remarks on AI, President Xi Jinping used the July 17 World Artificial Intelligence Conference opening in Shanghai to cast Beijing as champion of open-source AI and to promote a China-led World AI Cooperation...
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro is expected to launch July 17 following a six-week delay that reporting attributes to Google reportedly scrapping the original base model and restarting pretraining after engineers found structural failures in...
New analysis details how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on June 30 withdrew the export controls that had forced Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline for 18 days. The June 12 BIS 'is informed' letter, triggered by an...
Eli Lilly agreed to acquire psychedelic drugmaker AtaiBeckley for $2.8 billion, gaining access to experimental mental-health treatments based on DMT and MDMA. The deal, announced July 16, signals mainstream pharma's growing bet on...
A tracker of the July 2026 open-weight wave counts five significant moves in a two-week window: Kimi K3 at 2.8 trillion parameters, Thinking Machines' Inkling at 975B parameters with 41B active under Apache 2.0, MiniMax's 2.7T 'M3 Pro'...
PrismML open-sourced Bonsai 27B on July 15, a 27-billion-parameter model compressed to 3.9 GB that runs entirely on mobile phones. It is described as the first phone-compatible model at the 27B scale, pointing toward on-device inference...
OpenAI published two policy posts, one making the case for giving teenagers safe access to AI tools within educational contexts, and another, 'A scorecard for the AI age,' proposing a structured framework to assess AI's societal impacts...
China's OnePlus is bowing out of Western markets as a memory-chip crisis hammers the smartphone industry, according to the South China Morning Post. The retreat reflects surging memory costs driven partly by AI-datacenter demand...
An Israeli airstrike on July 17 killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded 20 attending a funeral in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, for a person killed in an earlier strike. The attack came amid continued Israeli bombardment...
Andy Burnham was reportedly named on July 17 as the new leader of the UK's Labour Party, making him prime minister-designate. He is set to take charge at 10 Downing Street next week.
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Try it arrow_outwardBenchmark the cost gap. Route a real workload through Kimi K3 at $3 input and $15 output per million tokens and compare total spend against your current premium US provider.
Prototype with no-code. Spin up a quick internal tool using Softr or Concho and wire in an open-weight model endpoint before the July 27 weights drop.
Stress-test supply risk. Map which of your models could go offline under export shifts, echoing the 18-day Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 outage, and keep a fallback provider ready.
China's largest open model just reset the cost floor while Xi frames open source as geopolitical strategy. Builders gain cheaper inference and real leverage, but the June export-control reversal shows how fast access can swing. Diversify your model stack now and treat pricing, not just benchmarks, as the moat.
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