6 Oct🚨 The French at Mistral just dropped Large 4 Looks like Europe’s biggest hope in frontier AI is still alive. 1 trillion parameters, with 49B active at a time. In some benchmarks, it already beats GPT 6 Astra and competes with the strongest open weight models. The API is live…MistralOpen weights
15 Aug⚡️ Qwen hit 3 billion downloads Alibaba’s models pulled in over 3B downloads worldwide in just six months. On Hugging Face, Qwen is running at roughly 5x Google’s download count, with Meta even further behind.AlibabaQwenOpen weights
27 Jul⚡️ Kimi K3’s weights are now available Moonshot AI has released the model weights and technical report for its most powerful model yet. • 2.8T parameters, 104B active • 1M-token context window • native image understanding • up to 2.5× more compute-efficient than Kimi K2 The…Kimi K3Moonshot AIKimiOpen weights
27 JulJensen Huang is building an alliance to secure AI NVIDIA has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance with Microsoft, Hugging Face, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, IBM, Salesforce, Red Hat, and dozens of other companies. The group will build and open-source AI models and cybersecurity…NVIDIAOpen weightsAI security
26 Jul50 tech companies have come out in support of open AI models. On July 24, Jensen Huang published his first post on X, sharing an open letter titled “Open Weights and American AI Leadership.” The letter argues that open-weight models, which can be downloaded, modified, and run…AnthropicNVIDIAOpen weightsAI policy
19 JulKimi’s success has OpenAI’s strategy chief talking about restrictions Dean Ball, who leads strategic work at OpenAI, says China’s Kimi is already roughly on par with the best publicly available models from early 2026. He then describes how US agencies could discourage…Moonshot AIOpenAIKimiOpen weightsAI policy
19 JulAlibaba just teased Qwen3.8 with 2.4T parameters This is the new Qwen flagship, with open weights coming soon. Alibaba ranks it right below Claude Fable 5. Public benchmarks are still missing, so nobody really knows how close it actually is to Fable, or how it stacks up against…ClaudeFable 5GPT-5.6 SolKimi K3AlibabaQwenOpen weights
7 JulChina may close foreign access to its best AI models Authorities have already met with Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai, Reuters reports. The talks covered current models and models that have not been released yet. Possible targets for control: • closed models • open-weight models •…AlibabaByteDanceZ.aiOpen weightsAI policy
