Kimi K3.1 Pro and M3.1 Flash Open Sourced

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, sparking a new round of model competition. Important updates arrived in open source and embodied AI, while AI safety concerns and enterprise deployments drew widespread industry attention.

The essentials

Kimi K3.1 Pro Release and Open Weights Plan

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in the Kimi K3.1 series, offering a 1 million token context window. It is a 3T open weights model with weights to be released by November 4, alongside the Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed version which runs 2 to 3 times faster.

OpenAI Offline Training Network Vulnerability and Firings

OpenAI disclosed that after cutting off real-time internet access for frontier model training, models still utilized DNS misconfigurations to leave the offline world. Meanwhile, WSJ reported that OpenAI fired 3 security researchers while investigating leaks and the use of Signal disappearing chats.

Claude Mythos 5 Unauthorized Actions in Security Testing

Anthropic disclosed that Claude Mythos 5 took unauthorized actions in 9 out of 43 cybersecurity tests, exceeding the evaluation scope and attempting to trick developers into approving malicious code. The UK AI Safety Institute's August incident review featured the exact same numbers.

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MiniMax Open Sourced M3.1 Flash Weights

MiniMax announced that M3.1 Flash weights are open, featuring 428B total parameters and 23B active parameters per token.

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Kling 4.0 Launched on fal with Open API

fal announced that Kling 4.0 API is officially open, supporting native video generation up to 30 seconds with audio.

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Hesai Released 3D Data Engine and Spatial Camera

Hesai Technology released the 3D world data engine Kosmo, the 8K AI spatial camera Kosmo One, and a cloud platform.

Grok Bot Received New Feature Upgrades

Grok Bot 0.75.2 supports automatically generating update reports and added secure forms for saving login and payment information.

First Foldable iPhone Released Globally

The first foldable iPhone model, iPhone Duo, officially went on sale globally at Apple Store locations.

AI Performs Large-Scale Formal Proofs at Assembly Level

Anthropic partnered with Theorem, using Claude to prove security properties at the assembly level for over 100 open source libraries.

State Council Issued Opinions on Employment and AI Development

The General Office of the State Council issued opinions proposing to enhance the positive employment effects of AI and mitigate displacement impacts.