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Moonshot says K3.1 Pro can read up to 1 million tokens (word pieces) at once and nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5 on a coding test. It is out now in the Kimi apps and API, with the weights promised by 4 November.
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Model
Block unveils Dessa, a voice model trained only on recordings of people talking (opens the original source in a new tab)Block says it trained Dessa from scratch on human conversation alone, with no text and no pretrained models, so it can hold a live spoken chat full of pauses and emotion. Block has opened a waitlist.
Open source
Tencent releases Hy-Nomas, an open model that builds a video world you can steer (opens the original source in a new tab)Hy-Nomas makes video one short piece after another, and between pieces you can add objects, change the scene or move the camera with text. The weights are free to use under the Apache 2.0 licence.
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Open source
Shanghai AI Lab releases Atria Dawn, an open model for long research tasks (opens the original source in a new tab)Built on GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter model, Atria Dawn targets research and engineering jobs that take many steps and tools, and aims for results others can check. It uses the MIT licence.
Research
Google says the chest X-ray screening tool that grew from its research is used in about 40 health facilities in six countries, and that miners are checked on site four kilometres underground.
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