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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2
Moonshot AI's trillion-parameter MoE model, continuing its emphasis on lossless recall across a very long context window.
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China’s Open-Model Playbook
Follow the market’s shifts from bilingual chat models and hyperscaler-backed open families to sparse MoE efficiency, controllable reasoning, and long-context products across ChatGLM, Qwen, DeepSeek, and Kimi.
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Z.ai releases 355B MoE model GLM-4.5
Z.ai releases GLM-4.5, a 355-billion-parameter MoE model with updated expert routing and improved long-form structure generation.