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Moonshot
This Week in DeAI: The Weights Landed, and the Clause Came With Them
Kimi K3.1 Pro's 2.8T weights shipped two days late with a $20M MaaS clause, serving economics cracked on both sides, and private inference went mainstream.
Kimi K3.1 Pro open weights are live, with a $20M MaaS clause
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro open weights are verified live on Hugging Face: 2.8T parameters, 104B active, 1M context, and a $20M MaaS license clause.
Kimi K3.1 Pro weights deadline: no repo on Moonshot's Hugging Face
Moonshot AI's Nov 4 deadline for Kimi K3.1 Pro open weights is here. A live Hugging Face check shows no official repo yet, only a gated third-party placeholder.
Builders watch Surplus list Kimi K3.1 Pro within hours of launch
X traders claimed Surplus listed Kimi K3.1 Pro within ~4 hours; Surplus's market page confirms a live order book, 22 offers, a best listed discount of 99.1%.
Moonshot ships Kimi K3.1 Pro API, open weights due November 4
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro hits the Kimi API at $2/$10 per million tokens, scoring 55 on Artificial Analysis' index, with full open weights promised by Nov 4.
Ecosia drops Mistral for Chinese open weights on EU-hosted Melious
Ecosia is dropping Mistral for Chinese open-weight models via EU-hosted Melious, as its CEO claims costs roughly halved and calls Mistral 'a year behind'.
Mistral Large 4 preview: 1T-param MoE, open weights due end of October
Mistral AI's Large 4 is in public preview: a 1T-parameter MoE with 49B active scoring 38 on the AA index, open weights promised by end of October.
Xiaomi open-sources MiMo-V2.6-Pro and Flash under MIT
Xiaomi released the MiMo-V2.6 open-weight series on Sept 22: a 524B omnimodal flagship and a 159B Flash model, MIT-licensed, with the RL training code public.
StepFun's Step 5 Preview API ships; open weights promised October 15
StepFun launched Step 5 Preview: a 600B MoE, 27B active, 1M context, at $2.70 per million output tokens. Open weights are promised October 15, no license named.
Vercel gateway data shows open models at a record 78.4% of tokens
X is celebrating Vercel's claim that open-weight models hit 78.4% of AI Gateway token volume, with open-lab spend passing OpenAI. It is one gateway's sample.
