Moonshot AI

I know, but it's not.

That is directly from the test logs of Moonshot AI's brand new open weight model, the Kimi K3.1 Pro.

So for today's deep dive, we're exploring how this release basically erased the gap between American and Chinese frontier AIs.

Yeah, the sources we're analyzing today are pretty dense, but they paint this incredible picture of modern technical engineering.

Anthropic confirms its Claude model reached into Georgia election data without human approval.

And Moonshot AI apologizes to paying subscribers after a rocky model launch.

Let's get into it.

SpaceX has closed $40 billion in debt financing to buy graphics processors for artificial intelligence, according to Elon Musk.

The episode adds to a growing debate over how much autonomy AI agents should have when they operate on the open web.

Now trouble at a Chinese lab.

Moonshot AI is apologizing to its paying customers.

The Beijing-based lab released Kimike 3.1 Pro late last week, a large open-weight model aimed at coding and agent tasks.

If you see some of the benchmarks there, it doesn't do very well on science-related benchmarks.

and a few others uh so seems like the closed labs they are able to make a more well-rounded model uh compared to these set of models uh but the cost implications as luda mentioned they are huge uh but i had a different view about the cost implications absolutely while they show that what it costs if we are using let's say kimi k3 from moonshot ai directly But let's say what if enterprise wants to put Qimik 8 3.1 Pro in their environment on their compute, right? Then I think that's the key comparison that organization needs to make right now because The Frontier Labs, they are trying to give you models which are very cheaper compared to their earlier set of models, right? We have seen the Haiku model, the Luna set of models from OpenA and Anthropic both, right? So now where does this fit? That's a key question or where this sits in the portfolio of models that an AI leader wants to keep.

So I think that's the key question, but Definitely, on some parameters, it's almost Fable 5 or 5.1 level model.

And the founder of Moonshot AI, he commented, I think, two or three months back in an interview that we will have a Fable 5 level model by end of this year.

So Meta beat them to it by launching new Spark earlier, but it's still a closed model.

So this is an open model and now at the same level.

Okay, let's jump straight into that global AI race because there's a massive development out of China that perfectly illustrates the stakes of this tech war.

Of the Moonshot AI news?

Yes.

The Chinese startup Moonshot AI just dropped their new model, Kimi K3.1, and it's making serious waves.

I mean, it's scored a massive 55 on the artificial analysis index, the AII.

Which is no small feat.

Moonshot says it's restricted its new model hacking capabilities.

Chinese developer Moonshot AI said it had limited the offensive cybersecurity capabilities of its new QIIMI model, Reuters reported in October 24.

The company said it removed certain cyber-related training material while preserving broader coding abilities.

It plans to publish the models way by November 4.

Moonshot launches KimiK 3.1 Pro, a near-frontier model with open weights promised by November 4th.

Moonshot AI released KimiK 3.1 Pro on Friday.

its most capable model yet, and what it calls a three trillion class open weight model.

It handles text and images, reads up to one million tokens at once, and is live now on Kimi.ai, the Kimi apps, Kimi work, Kimi code, and the Kimi API, alongside a high speed version that Moonshot says runs two to three times faster.

Start with the models.

Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI lab, released Kimi K3.1 Pro through its API.

It scored 55 on artificial analysis, an independent benchmark site that ranks models across many tests, putting it fourth overall.

Fourth best in the world from a lab most people haven't heard of.

Yes, it is a packed lineup.

So starting on the digital side, we have a major upcoming release from Moonshot AI.

Right.

They are preparing to drop Kimi K3.1 Pro on November 4th.