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1. Mistral Debuts “Le Chonk”: Open-Weight Large 4 in Public Preview, Weights Drop Oct 27

   

   …pened a public preview of the open-weight Large 4, codenamed “Le Chonk” — API available now, weights publishin…

   Stories·Oct 6

2. Nvidia-Backed Reflection Debuts Beam, Its First Open-Weight Frontier Model: 501B Params, 23B Active

   

   …ched Beam, its first frontier open-weight model: a text-only MoE with 501B total params and 23B active per tok…

   Stories·Oct 6

3. Moonshot in Settlement Talks Before Its IPO: A Claim Above $700 Million Dating to a Spin-Out

   

   …pany describes as the largest open-weight system to date. Moonshot first gained users with the Kimi chatbot an…

   Stories·Oct 12

4. Moonshot AI Closes Final Private Round at ~$50B, Eyes $5B Hong Kong IPO in Q1 2027

   

   …closed financials. K3: July's open-weight model Kimi K3, released in July, is a native multimodal open-weight …

   Stories·Oct 6

5. Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX 3 Image: Bounding-Box Edits Leave Pixels Outside the Box Unchanged

   

   …% off through October 8); the open-weights release is expected "in the coming weeks". What Happened On October…

   Stories·Oct 4

6. Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: Same Sticker Price, ~30% Cheaper Per Task

   

   … enterprises are switching to open-weight models to cut costs — the Financial Times cited AlphaSense data show…

   Stories·Sep 29