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Moonshot AI ships Kimi K3, the largest open-weight model ever
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026, open-sourcing the 2.8-trillion-parameter weights under a modified MIT license eleven days later. The mixture-of-experts model activates 104B parameters (16 of 896 experts) per token, adds a 1M-token context window and native image/video understanding, and topped Arena's blind Frontend Code evaluation ahead of Claude Fable 5 — the clearest sign yet that open-weight labs out of China are setting the pace at the very top of the frontier race, not just chasing it. K3 succeeds the original Kimi K2 through the K2 Thinking, K2.5, K2.6 and K2.7-Code line, and developers have already wired it into Cursor and Vercel, running it on consumer GPUs within days of release.
Kimi K3 →Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash across Search, Android and Workspace
Gemini 3.6 Flash, released July 21, 2026, continues Google's strategy of fast, production-friendly frontier models woven into its products — Search AI Mode, Android assistants and Workspace. It balances low latency with strong multimodal reasoning, and powers robotics work through the Gemini Robotics line.
Gemini 3.6 Flash →Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5 with a native 1M-token context
Released on June 30, 2026, Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's workhorse frontier model: 63.2% on SWE-Bench Pro, a native one-million-token context window and strong tool-use reliability at Sonnet pricing. It became the default model for Claude's free and Pro users, bringing frontier-grade agentic coding to the mainstream.
Claude Sonnet 5 →