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With its open-sourced Kimi K2 model, Moonshot is looking to gain fresh attention in the global AI market. Photo: Shutterstock

Published: 6:02pm, 12 Jul 2025

Chinese start-up Moonshot AI has released a new open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model, called Kimi K2, that is touted to excel in frontier knowledge, maths, coding and general agentic tasks, as the company looks to maintain an edge against rivals such as DeepSeek .

Beijing -based Moonshot said Kimi K2 was developed with a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture and boasts 1 trillion total parameters, with

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Grok 4 Stuns Users By Mirroring Elon Musk’s Opinions, Fueling Debate Over Bias, Control, And How “The Smartest AI” May Be Anything But Neutral

wccftech | July 11, 2025, 4:18 p.m. | Original

Grok 4 is the latest leap in xAI's LLM model development and was unveiled on July 9, 2025, during a live stream event hosted by Elon Musk on X, alongside Grok4 Heavy. The first generative chatbot came out in 2023 and was meant to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. Users can interact with the tool on X and ask questions on the platform. Since it is more visible than the competition, it sometimes invites public criticism. While it has not been long since

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China's Moonshot AI releases open-source model to reclaim market position - Reuters

Reuters | July 11, 2025, 11:21 a.m. | Original

China's Moonshot AI releases open-source model to reclaim market position Reuters

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QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database

Phoronix | July 11, 2025, 6:35 a.m. | Original

QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. QuestDB continues to be built using a combination of Java, C++, and Rust for being an interesting time-series database.

The QuestDB 9.0 database brings initial support for multi-dimensional rrays that are NumPy-like arrays and can be used for storing machine learning weights and other purposes. QuestDB 9.0 also introduces their new

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OpenAI to release web browser that could challenge Google Chrome: sources

CBC News | July 9, 2025, 4:23 p.m. | Original

The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks, according to three sources familiar with the matter who spoke with Reuters. If adopted by the 400 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, OpenAI's browser could put pressure on a key component of rival Google's ad-money spigot.

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Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome - Reuters

Reuters | July 9, 2025, 3:44 p.m. | Original

Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome Reuters

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Study could lead to LLMs that are better at complex reasoning

MIT News | July 8, 2025, midnight | Original

Researchers developed a way to make large language models more adaptable to challenging tasks like strategic planning or process optimization.

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LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support

Phoronix | July 7, 2025, 6:52 a.m. | Original

While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.2 is adding initial support for importing Markdown files into the LibreOffice Writer word processor.

For fans of the Markdown text markup language, the two decade old standard is finally seeing nice import support being worked on for LibreOffice Writer. Merged this morning was the initial patch for reading Markdown files into Writer using a new filter. That

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Huawei defends AI models as home-grown after whistle-blowers raise red flags

SCMP | July 7, 2025, 6 a.m. | Original

The Huawei Technologies’ lab in charge of large language models (LLMs) has defended its latest open-source Pro MoE model as indigenous, denying allegations that it was developed through incremental training of third-party models.

The Shenzhen-based telecoms equipment giant, considered the poster child for China’s resilience against US tech sanctions, is fighting to maintain its relevance in the LLM field, as open-source models developed by the likes of DeepSeek and Alibaba Group Holding gain ground.

Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post

The Huawei Ascend AI booth at The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, July 4, 2024. Photo: AP

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Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model

9to5mac | July 4, 2025, 11:53 a.m. | Original

UK competition regulator wants iPhone browser competition, but Apple not allowed to win | Computer code seen on a monitor

Apple quietly dropped a with an interesting twist. Instead of writing code like traditional LLMs generate text (left to right, top to bottom), it can also write out of order, and improve multiple chunks at once.

The result is faster code generation, at a performance that rivals top open-source coding models. Here’s how it works.

Here are some (overly simplified, in the name of efficiency) concepts that are important to understand before we can move on.

Traditionally, most LLMs have been

Chinese unicorn Moonshot launches AI model Kimi K2 in red-hot open-source market

Grok 4 Stuns Users By Mirroring Elon Musk’s Opinions, Fueling Debate Over Bias, Control, And How “The Smartest AI” May Be Anything But Neutral

China's Moonshot AI releases open-source model to reclaim market position - Reuters

QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database

OpenAI to release web browser that could challenge Google Chrome: sources

Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome - Reuters

Study could lead to LLMs that are better at complex reasoning

LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support

Huawei defends AI models as home-grown after whistle-blowers raise red flags

Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model

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