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- 01 of 10RESEARCH
China's Moonshot unveils Kimi K3, largest open AI model
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model anyone can download for free. It tops the global coding chart and does in hours what used to take weeks. Chinese labs are now level with the top American ones.
OUR TAKEThe frontier just opened its front door, and the keys were made in Beijing.
Read more → - 02 of 10STARTUPS
Moonshot plans $30 billion Hong Kong listing within six months
Fresh off Kimi K3, Moonshot told investors it wants to float in Hong Kong at a $30 billion valuation. Annual sales have hit $300 million. It would be one of the biggest AI listings ever outside America.
OUR TAKEA model on Friday, a stock ticker by teatime.
Read more → - 03 of 10GOVERNANCE
Xi Jinping calls for global AI emergency response system
In a major speech, China's president said AI needs a shared safety net across borders, the way pandemics do. He pushed for open development and a new 29 nation cooperation body based in Shanghai.
OUR TAKEA safety plan is only worth the countries willing to pick up the phone.
Read more → - 04 of 10ENTERTAINMENT
Netflix paid $587 million for Ben Affleck's AI film startup
A regulatory filing confirmed Netflix bought InterPositive, the AI filmmaking company Affleck co-founded, for $587 million cash. The tools help writers and directors build scenes faster. Expect them baked into future Netflix productions.
OUR TAKEHollywood just hired the robot, and paid it upfront.
Read more → - 05 of 10OPEN AI
Nonprofit Current AI raises $400 million to build free AI for the world
Backed by France and the Ford Foundation, Current AI wants an open shared layer of AI that speaks every language and belongs to no company. Think Wikipedia, but for models. First tools land next year.
OUR TAKEPublic libraries worked out fine, so worth a shot.
Read more → - 06 of 10HEALTH
Mayo Clinic trials AI that reads your medical history in seconds
Doctors at Mayo are testing a tool that scans a patient's full record and surfaces what matters before an appointment. Early results show shorter waits and fewer missed details. Rollout to other hospitals could follow.
OUR TAKEThe bit where the doctor actually remembers you may finally scale.
Read more → - 07 of 10RESEARCH
Google DeepMind turns video generators into vision experts
DeepMind researchers showed that models built to make videos already understand depth, motion and objects. Their new method, GenCeption, reuses those skills for tasks like helping cars and robots see. One model, many jobs.
OUR TAKETurns out the film crew also knew how to drive.
Read more → - 08 of 10OPEN SOURCE
Free video AI beats GPT-5 at finding moments in clips
Chinese lab OpenGVLab released VideoChat3, a free model that outperforms GPT-5 at pinpointing exact moments in long videos. Training code is public too. Editors, researchers and teachers can run it on their own kit.
OUR TAKECTRL+F for video, and it costs nothing.
Read more → - 09 of 10ROBOTICS
LimX raises nearly $200 million to ship humanoid robots worldwide
Shenzhen based LimX Dynamics closed a pre listing round of almost $200 million to mass produce its general purpose humanoid robots. Buyers include factories and warehouses. The company now sits among the best funded humanoid firms anywhere.
OUR TAKEThe robots are coming, and they have a rather healthy expense account.
Read more → - 10 of 10PUBLIC SERVICES
iFLYTEK's GuideX agent handles government paperwork for you
Launched at Shanghai's AI summit, GuideX is an on screen assistant that does not just answer questions at public offices but completes the forms and bookings itself. Trials cover pensions, taxes and travel permits. Fewer queues, in theory.
OUR TAKEA civil servant that never sighs when you ask twice.
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