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July 29, 2026
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote a letter called "Open Weights and American AI Leadership." ShellyPalmer ( Think about this WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2026 On July 16, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a Chinese open-weight model that reached the top tier of AI performance at a fraction of the cost of U.S. closed models. Its weights are now public...…
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View image: ( Follow image link: ( Caption: Welcome back. China's Moonshot just dropped the full open weights for Kimi K3. Frontier intelligence is now available to every dev — or is it? With 2.8 trillion parameters, most developers would need a small fortune to deploy it on their local setup at home. But that doesn’t mean devs don’t have a plan to put it to use. ### Today’s Brief How to reduce token spend Building a working ‘Call of D...…
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View image: ( Follow image link: ( Caption: Welcome back, Superhuman. Eleven days ago, Moonshot AI debuted Kimi K3: a new frontier-level model so popular the lab had to temporarily pause new subscriptions. Today, they’ve made it available for anyone to download and run themselves. For free. Frontier intelligence is now available to anyone — not just the...…
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Similarweb’s 2026 report says Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year earlier. ShellyPalmer ( Think about this TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2026 Greetings from Terminal 4 at JFK. I’m headed to Deer Valley to keynote at the KPMG Tech and Innovation Symposium. In the news: Similarweb’s 2026 report (…