This Week in WordPress #381

First one, Axios.

It's called China's open-weight Kimi model stuns AI world with frontier-level results.

Tell us more, Mark.

To be honest, I am just reading about this, and I find it really interesting.

So it's an open-weight model, which means you can actually install it on your own hardware, but it's not open source, which means you don't really know what's going on behind the scenes.

But the impressive thing is...

So the first article that I shared is kind of like what the leaked information was about it.

And then the second article are the actual benchmarks.

And I haven't gone through all the benchmarks and all of that yet.

But it sounds like it's pretty impressive.

And it's, you know, of course, everything that comes out in AI these days is the such and such killer.

So is this the fable killer? Is this the whatever killer? Who knows? But But most of this stuff technically is above my pay grade, and I haven't quite figured it all out.

But one of the things that seemed to be pretty impressive is that it seems to do very well at what they call SWE, which is Software Engineering Benchmarks.

And it's designed to test whether or not AI is able to go in and determine bugs in complex pieces of software and squash them.

And apparently it is comparable to some of the others out there that we currently have in the US.

So what it basically boils down to is China's catching up to the US and, you know, Then there's the whole philosophical question of, okay, but we can't trust China and all the spying and everything that goes on.

But I think ultimately it boils down to people are going to go with whatever is cheapest and they've gotten so used to AI as part of their workflow that I'm not sure people are going to care.

the rest of the world, I'm not sure, trusts the United States and their AI models.

What's really interesting is that in the UK, I can only speak to UK journalism, but I'll just take that off the screen actually.

In the UK, the discussion about AI, probably about a year ago, it was still really nerdy.

It was tech press stuff and now it's leeched into regular news cycles like normal newspapers talk about AI.

Because I think it's fair to say that if you're behind a computer, if you're a gardener or something, maybe AI is not part of the furniture, but if you're sat behind a computer, it's quite likely you've collided with it now.

And so it's become part of the conversation.

And so anyway, the reason I'm saying is this kind of news now is just leaking into normal newspapers.

And the bit that I read in a British newspaper was that essentially you can measure now in a handful of how far the Chinese are behind the US.