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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3 Weights, a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Open Model
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3's weights in July 2026, a 2.8T-parameter multimodal MoE model with a 1M-token context and new terms for large commercial users.
Microsoft Unveils Seven In-House MAI Models at Build 2026
At Build 2026 on June 2, Microsoft launched seven in-house MAI models, led by the MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model and the MAI-Code-1-Flash coding model.
Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026 for Agents and Coding
Google opened its Gemini 3.5 series at I/O on May 19, 2026, with Gemini 3.5 Flash, which it says beats Gemini 3.1 Pro on agent benchmarks, at $1.50/$9 pricing.
Google Releases Gemma 4 Open Models Under Apache 2.0, From Phones to a Single GPU
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 in April 2026, multimodal open models from E2B to 31B, and moved Gemma to the Apache 2.0 license for the first time.
Mistral Small 4: Apache 2.0 Model Unifies Reasoning, Coding and Vision
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 4 in March 2026, an Apache 2.0 open-weight 119B MoE model with 6.5B active parameters that unifies chat, reasoning and coding.
Google Launches Gemini 3 Pro, Topping LMArena and Debuting Antigravity
Google released Gemini 3 on November 18, 2025, starting with Gemini 3 Pro in preview, which topped LMArena at 1501 Elo and launched with Antigravity.
Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 3, a Real-Time Interactive World Model
Google DeepMind announced Genie 3 in August 2025, a world model that turns text prompts into interactive 720p worlds at 24 fps that stay consistent for minutes.
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash Reach General Availability on Google Cloud
Google made Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash generally available on June 17, 2025, previewed 2.5 Flash-Lite and gave developers stable thinking models.
OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive's io in a $6.5 Billion All-Stock Deal
OpenAI agreed to buy io, the AI device startup founded by Jony Ive, for about $6.5 billion in stock. What its hardware push could mean for developers.
OpenAI Releases o3 and o4-mini, Reasoning Models That Use Tools
OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini, released April 16, 2025, reason with tools and images, posted strong coding and math results and reached developers through the API.
Meta Releases Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, Its First Open-Weight MoE Models
Meta released Llama 4 Scout and Maverick in April 2025, its first natively multimodal mixture-of-experts open-weight models, with a 10M-token context claim.