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2026-09-18-Fri
Kimi launches a finance suite with nine skills, more than 10 data plugins and managed enterprise agents
▪ With Kimi's finance tools spread across several surfaces, competition shifts to licensed data and auditable delivery.
Chinese models reportedly reached 46% of U.S. OpenRouter weekly usage at one point, as open distribution expands reach
▪ Chinese models' overseas reach is visible in token volume, but usage share and revenue share remain different measures.
2026-09-12-Sat
Moonshot AI Reportedly Tops $1 Billion in August ARR as Kimi K3 Drives a More Than Threefold Increase
▪ Kimi K3 has lifted Moonshot's revenue velocity; its next valuation depends more on retention and inference margins than on the steepness of an ARR curve.
2026-08-26-Wed
OpenAI Reveals First Benchmarks for In-House Inference Chip Jalapeño — Per-Watt Performance Beats Nvidia GB300
▪ A first-gen ASIC beating a current flagship GPU isn't a process-node win — it's the ability to put models, compilers, and silicon into the same iteration cycle.
Legal AI Firm Harvey Post-Trains Proprietary Model Tenet on Moonshot AI's Kimi K3
▪ The decisive factor for open-weight models isn't the benchmark leaderboard — it's whether anyone is willing to put their core product on top of them.