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Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI will release the model weights of its high-performance model, Kimi K3. Developers can download the model, modify it for various purposes, and run it in their own data centers or cloud environments.Kimi K3 boasts 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million token context window, enabling it to process large-scale documents and codebases in a single pass. Moonshot AI plans to later publish a technical report detailing the model's architecture, training methodology, and performance evaluation results.Following the release of Kimi K3, Moonshot AI's daily revenue is reported to have increased by at least 6 times. The company is reportedly advancing a new round of fundraising at a $50 billion valuation and is considering a Hong Kong listing as early as this year.According to Bloomberg Intelligence, following the release of Kimi K3 and Z.AI's GLM-5.2, the share of Chinese open-weight models in overall token usage has risen to 68%. Services like AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Azure Foundry, and Google Vertex AI currently do not offer Chinese open-weight models such as Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2.
Odaily News According to pre-market quotes from market makers, as of 9:56 AM Eastern Time this Friday, the expected opening price of SK Hynix American Depositary Receipts (ADR) has reached approximately $175, about 17% higher than the IPO price of $149. SK Hynix previously completed a $26.5 billion ADR offering, setting a record for the highest fundraising amount by a foreign company in the U.S. market. Its listing performance could become an important indicator for global investors observing the AI semiconductor boom. If the stock maintains a strong performance after listing, it may also further enhance the appeal of Asian tech companies raising capital through the U.S. capital markets. (Bloomberg)
According to official news, Prime Intellect announced the completion of a $130 million Series A financing round, led by Radical Ventures with participation from NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Dell Capital, and existing investors. The company stated that it will utilize the funds to continue building its "Open Superintelligence Stack" to support users in training, deploying, and continuously optimizing their own models.
previously, multiple political parties in South Korea discussed including unrealized stock gains in comprehensive taxation, raising concerns about high-valuation tech stocks and triggering a circuit breaker on KOSPI. Affected by this news, SK Hynix's stock price fell over 8%, leading to increased trading attention in related contract markets.According to CoinGlass data, the total open interest for SK HYNIX contracts across the network is currently $184 million. The liquidity for this underlying asset is primarily concentrated on leading trading platforms, with Binance, Bitget, and OKX ranking in the top three for open interest. Their respective shares of open interest are 56.58% ($104 million), 15.81% ($29.05 million), and 11.4% ($20.96 million), collectively accounting for approximately 83% of the market share.
a16z Crypto has published an article explaining the rationale behind leading the investment in Morpho. It points out that credit is a core mechanism for modern economic growth and capital allocation, and that blockchain-driven open credit networks have the potential to lower the cost of financial infrastructure, enhance market competition efficiency, and provide global users with broader financing and yield opportunities. a16z Crypto disclosed that it first engaged with the Morpho team in 2022. Since the global financial crisis, the private credit market has grown rapidly, reflecting the market’s demand for more direct and efficient financing models. Meanwhile, institutions can issue their own lending markets that share the network’s liquidity and network effects. The infrastructure in this area is expected to dismantle traditional financial intermediary systems and build a global open credit network.
Odaily AI security startup Depthfirst has announced that its self-developed AI model outperforms Anthropic’s latest model, Mythos, in code vulnerability detection. It has discovered more critical security vulnerabilities at approximately one-tenth the cost, drawing attention from the cybersecurity industry.According to the company, a month before the launch of Mythos, it had previously claimed to have found a large number of severe vulnerabilities in key internet infrastructure code. Depthfirst now says its model has further identified multiple high-risk vulnerabilities that Mythos missed, all at a lower cost (approximately $1,000 compared to $10,000).Depthfirst CEO Qasim Mithani stated that the company has improved vulnerability detection efficiency through a “single-task-optimized AI model,” significantly reducing the cost of security analysis while enhancing coverage depth.The company completed $80 million in funding in March this year, achieving a valuation of $580 million. Alongside this, it launched the “Open Defense Initiative,” providing $5 million worth of AI detection credits to open-source developers and critical infrastructure projects for vulnerability scanning and security audits. (Forbes)