Open Source

Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K3, a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Open-Weight Model

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model (896 experts, 16 active per token) built on Kimi Delta Attention hybrid linear attention, with native vision understanding and up to a 1-million-token context window. It went live via Kimi's apps and API immediately, debuting at No. 3 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard behind Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol while topping Arena.ai's front-end web-dev benchmark. Full open weights are scheduled for July 27 under a Modified MIT license — the first model at this parameter scale to ship openly.

Meta Reportedly Building 'Meta Compute' to Sell Surplus AI Capacity

Reports on July 1 said Meta is developing an internal cloud unit called Meta Compute to sell surplus AI training and inference capacity — along with access to its Llama model family — to enterprise customers. The move would turn Meta's massive data-center buildout from a pure cost center into a revenue line competing with established AI clouds.

Mistral Releases OCR 4 With Bounding Boxes and 170-Language Support

Mistral released OCR 4, a document-intelligence model that returns bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores alongside extracted text, with support for 170 languages across 10 language groups. It runs in a single container for fully self-hosted deployments and is positioned as an ingestion component for enterprise search, RAG, and domain-specific retrieval pipelines.

Reflection Secures SpaceX Colossus 2 Compute Through 2029

Open-source AI startup Reflection signed a compute agreement with SpaceX for immediate access to Nvidia GB300 systems at the Colossus 2 data center. Reported payments rise to $150 million per month from July 2026 through 2029.

European Companies Diversify AI Providers After U.S. Restrictions

European firms including Siemens, Renault and Orange are spreading workloads across U.S., European, Chinese and open models after U.S. restrictions highlighted supplier-access risk. The shift is strengthening interest in on-premise deployment, open weights and digital sovereignty.

EU Selects EUROPA to Build Open Frontier Model

The European Commission selected the Domyn-led EUROPA consortium to build an open frontier AI model covering all 24 official EU languages. The challenge sought proposals at a scale above 400 billion parameters using European high-performance computing resources.