MiniMax M3: Release Date, Sparse Attention, and What to Expect” featuring bold yellow and white text beside a glowing MiniMax M3 chip on a dark neon tech background. Orange, purple, and blue speed trails emphasize the model’s claimed faster prefill, faster decoding, and next-generation AI flagship positioning.

MiniMax M3: Release Date, Sparse Attention, and What to Expect from China’s Next AI Flagship

In late May 2026, MiniMax’s Head of Engineering, Skyler Miao, broke cover with the first technical preview of MiniMax M3, the Shanghai lab’s next flagship language model. The pitch is sharp: 9.7× faster prefill and 15.6× faster decoding at 1-million-token context versus the current MiniMax-M2.7. The trick is reintroducing sparse attention, an architecture MiniMax explicitly […]

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New Chinese Model Kimi K2 Thinking Ranks #1 in Multiple Benchmarks

On November 6, 2025, Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, its most advanced open-source model yet. It’s the first reasoning-focused variant in the Kimi K2 family and marks a major step forward in long-context, multi-step reasoning and autonomous tool use. Kimi K2 Thinking immediately made headlines for its performance: it set new state-of-the-art scores on several open benchmarks, including Humanity’s Last […]

Promotional image for Kimi K2‑0905, an open-source AI model by China’s Moonshot AI. The image features a bold Kimi logo on a blue gradient background, with the text: “China’s Kimi K2‑0905 just dropped and it’s crushing competition.” The word "Kimi K2‑0905" is highlighted in yellow to emphasize the model name.

China’s Moonshot AI Dropped Kimi K2 (0905) – The Open-Source Model Crushing the Competition

Moonshot AI, Chinese startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, is rolling out an upgraded version of its open‑weight open-source large language model, Kimi K2. The new build Kimi K2‑0905, introduces a 256,000-token context window, improved coding performance, and retains its permissive modified MIT license. Although early beta access was briefly mentioned on the company’s Discord […]

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OpenAI hat gerade gpt-oss veröffentlicht: Ein kostenloses LLM, das die meisten kostenpflichtigen Modelle übertrifft

OpenAI hat gerade seine ersten Open-Weight-Modelle seit GPT-2 veröffentlicht - ein großer Schritt, der die übliche Strategie ändert. Die am 5. August angekündigten neuen Modelle mit der Bezeichnung gpt-oss sind vollständig quelloffen und stehen unter der Apache-2.0-Lizenz. Das bedeutet, dass jeder sie herunterladen, optimieren und lokal ohne Einschränkungen ausführen kann. Diese Version kommt als Open-Source-KI [...]