Moonshot's Kimi K3 takes #1 on the Frontend Code Arena, beating Fable 5
Kimi K3 hit #1 on the Frontend Code Arena on July 16, beating Claude Fable 5. David Sacks calls it concerning, five weeks after backing the order that benched that same model.
Kimi K3 is a 2.8T open-weight MoE, but the weights are not out yet
Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model, on July 16. Open weights are promised by July 27. Until then it is API-only, and running it yourself will need serious cluster hardware.
GLM-5.2 is the best open-weight model yet, and you can't run it at home
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 shipped under an MIT license and beats GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks. It's also a 744B model that needs a server rack, not a desk.
Mistral says its next open-weight model gets early access in July
Mistral's CEO confirmed a new open-weight model with early access this month, as the company reportedly raises $3.5B on around $400M in annual revenue.