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Meta Releases Open-Weight 'Muse Glimmer' Agent Model for Local Consumer Hardware

Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model under Apache 2.0 designed to run multi-step AI agents locally on a single consumer GPU, supporting text, images, and over 100 languages. The release is...

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Chinese Open-Weight Model GLM-5.2 Nears Frontier Cyber and Bio Capabilities With No Refusals

A SaferAI evaluation found Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 trails OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 by only a few months on cyber and biology capabilities, yet refused none of the offensive cyber or dual-use bi...

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Amodei Clarifies Anthropic Never Sought Open-Weight Bans, Points Instead at Chinese State AI and Bioweapon Risk

Dario Amodei published a blog post denying industry rumors that Anthropic backs a ban on open-weight models, whether Chinese or general, calling non-dangerous open models a public good. He instead framed his concerns aro...

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Kimi Launch Revives US-China Open-Weight Model Panic and Lobbying Fight

TechCrunch's Equity podcast discussed the reaction to Moonshot AI's Kimi model, which reignited debates over US competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI. The hosts argued the panic echoes the earlier DeepSeek episo...

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Experts Doubt Distillation Claims Behind China's Kimi K3 as US Officials Allege IP Theft and Chip Smuggling

White House science advisor Michael Kratsios accused Chinese company Moonshot of building its open-weight LLM Kimi K3 by distilling Anthropic's Fable model and using export-banned Nvidia GB300 chips. AI researchers are s...

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US Treasury Threatens Sanctions Over Alleged Chinese Distillation of Anthropic's Fable Model

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that sanctions and Entity List designations remain possible after a White House official accused China's Moonshot of industrial-scale distillation of Anthropic's Fable model a...

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Moonshot AI's Open-Source Kimi K3 Nears Frontier Parity, Reigniting US-China AI Race Anxiety

Chinese firm Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight model it says achieves frontier-level performance while still trailing Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol, with independent evaluations from Arena.ai and Vals AI corr...

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China's Moonshot AI to Release Massive Kimi K3 Open-Weight Model Challenging Frontier Capabilities

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is set to release Kimi K3, a massive open-weight model with 2 to 3 trillion parameters designed to rival closed-source frontier models like Anthropic's Opus 4.8. This launch comes alongside...

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Thinking Machines Launches Inkling, a 975-Billion Parameter Open-Weight Multimodal Model

Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released its first open-weight AI model, Inkling, designed for enterprise customization. The 975-billion parameter mixture-of-experts model natively su...

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DeepSeek Releases V4 Models With 1.6 Trillion Parameters, Approaching Frontier Performance at Lower Cost

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released preview versions of its V4 large language models, including V4 Pro with 1.6 trillion parameters, making it the largest open-weight model available. The models reportedly close the gap...

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