#066 AI News for business - week 30

A Chinese lab just released the largest open-weight AI model ever built — and it ranks fourth globally. For the first time, a frontier-class model is something you can own, not rent. Meanwhile, Microsoft turned openly hostile toward OpenAI and Anthropic, and Google scrapped its Gemini flagship for a third time.

Top stories for week 30:

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 lands in the global top four and takes first place on a major coding benchmarkA frontier-class model becomes downloadable and self-hostable for the first time, changing the calculus for regulated industriesMicrosoft trains its salespeople to disparage OpenAI and Anthropic a week after promoting GPT-5.6 in CopilotGoogle DeepMind scraps and restarts Gemini 3.5 Pro for a third time Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.