On July 16th, Moonshot AI released its latest flagship model, Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture. The company has promised to release the model's weights on July 27th.
The latest roundup of open model artifacts highlights significant releases from Thinking Machines and Tencent, alongside updates from Poolside and DeepSeek.
The article argues that open-source AI models face an imminent threat of regulation or banning by the U.S. government, potentially within six months, as they approach the capability levels of closed models like Claude's Mythos.