Evening brief

Friday, July 17

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TL;DR Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 landed yesterday with near-frontier agentic benchmarks and open weights coming July 27; Gemini 3.5 Pro is widely targeted for today’s launch with a 2M-token context window but Google has not officially confirmed.

Models & research

  • Moonshot AI shipped Kimi K3 (July 16): 2.8T-parameter MoE, 1M-token context, two variants (K3 Max and K3 Swarm Max). Benchmarks: 93.5% GPQA Diamond, 88.3% Terminal-Bench 2.1, 56.0% Humanity’s Last Exam with tools. Beats Opus 4.8 on GDPval-AA v2 (1687 vs 1600), trails Fable 5 and Sol. Priced at $3/Mtok uncached input, $15/Mtok output. Open weights drop July 27. VentureBeat · kimi.com · TechCrunch

  • Gemini 3.5 Pro has a widely reported July 17 target today. Google rebuilt the base model from scratch after scrapping the original over SVG and recursive tool-call failures. Reported specs: 2M-token context, Deep Think reasoning mode gated behind the $250/mo Ultra tier. No official launch post or API listing confirmed as of this writing. TechTimes

People

OSS

  • Open Interpreter (Rust, openinterpreter/openinterpreter) is GitHub’s trending story today with +661 stars, now positioned as an open-model agent harness with Kimi K3 support front and center. GitHub
  • Graphify (Graphify-Labs/graphify, 89k total, +1,107 today): AI coding assistant that converts code and schemas into a queryable knowledge graph; Python, strong momentum this week. GitHub

Other

  • WAIC 2026 opens today in Shanghai (July 17-20). Xi Jinping is delivering his first in-person keynote at the conference since it launched in 2018, using the stage to push WAICO (World AI Cooperation Organization) as a rival governance body targeting the Global South. More than 300 products are set to debut at the event. SCMP · TechTimes