The "pelican benchmark" by Simon Willison arbitrates Kimi K3
An SVG illustration test acts as a quick progress gauge: Simon Willison publishes his reading of K3 on July 16 and 17.
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Meituan leads a $73.9M round for a Chinese robotics firm
Meituan leads a $73.9M round for Xynova, a Chinese robotics company - its third round of the year. Service hyperscalers are pivoting towards embodied - not as a lab, but as a strategic client.
13 h ago 9 11
India cybersecurity: ten systemic flaws identified by experts
An expert digest published by Medianama lists ten structural flaws in Indian cybersecurity. After Reliance/Kudankulam, the question shifts from incidents to roots.
13 h ago 7 7
Kioxia -16%, SoftBank in retreat: the Asian AI complex prices a deleveraging
Deleveraging AI in Asia: Kioxia drops 16%, SoftBank slides. The repricing of AI risk begins to show in the prices.
18 h ago 9 10
Tencent SkillHub launches SkillPay: monetization of agent skills enters the catalog
Tencent SkillHub opens SkillPay to sell AI agent skills. An agentic plugin marketplace, made in Shenzhen.
18 h ago 11 9
Kimi K3 goes live at 2.8 trillion parameters: Moonshot ships the biggest open-weight frontier bet yet
Moonshot takes Kimi K3 to GA with a striking figure: 2.8 trillion parameters, the largest open-weight architecture announced to date.
18 h ago 7 8
Inkling: Thinking Machines Lab ships its first open-weights model - a 975B MoE, Apache-2.0, multimodal
The first open-weights model from Thinking Machines Lab (Mira Murati) is here: Inkling, MoE 975B params (41B active), multimodal, Apache-2.0 license. The most discreet box in the frontier scene enters the open market through the front door.
yesterday 8 8
Kimi K3 goes live: Moonshot ships the model after the preview flood
After the wave of teasers and benchmark videos, Moonshot AI has put Kimi K3 into production on kimi.com and via its code API. The question is no longer "when," but "at what price, at what latency, and for what real use."
yesterday 9 8
LimX Dynamics unveils a Figure-grade humanoid demo: China's embodied field gains another player
The China humanoid pack is now shipping demos at Silicon Valley pace. The signal isn't a video - it's the cadence.
yesterday 10 11
Kimi K3 preview: Moonshot floods the timeline before shipping
Benchmark clips are everywhere. The model card, the API, and any reproducible evaluation are not.
yesterday 8 8
Xpeng promises global humanoid launch in 2027: the Chinese "embodied" race gets a distribution date
Xpeng, better known for EVs, will launch humanoid robots globally next year. The claim itself is common in 2026; the "globally" is the wager - and it lands right in the middle of the embodied-foundation race.
yesterday 8 9
Xiaomi opens Robotics-U0: a unified embodied 38B model, open source
Xiaomi publishes an open-source embodied generative model with 38 billion parameters that unifies four robotic tasks into a single architecture. The race for embodied backbones takes a step towards openness.
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