ThursdAI - Jul 16 - Inkling 975B open weights, Kimi K3 at 2.8T, a 27B model on a phone & Codex hits 9M

ThursdAI - Jul 16 - Inkling 975B open weights, Kimi K3 at 2.8T, a 27B model on a phone & Codex hits 9M

From ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week by From Weights & Biases, Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI from the past week

July 17, 2026 · 2h 14m

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This episode covers significant developments in AI, including the release of new models and discussions on governance frameworks.

Hey yall, Alex here, Huge thanks to Wolfram for running point on the live show this week. Didn’t have tons of time to edit this one, so please skip the first 10 minutes, it’s a loop of our new “wait for the live show to start” vid, that I build with HyperFrames and can’t wait to tell you about, next week! Today it seems that OpenSource is biting back, with Kimi K3 getting released just a short while after Thinking Machines (Thinky) has released Inkling, their near 1T model. I’m attaching the TL;DR and timestamps for the full show (my AI agents, yes even Fable and Sol are not a match yet at editing down hehe) and I’ll spare you the long Fable recap (please do let me know in the comments if you were expecting it) 0:00 – Intro, Alex on vacation, TLDR overview 11:35 – TLDR: Thinking Machines, open source, OpenAI news 12:34 – Banter: impressions of Sol/Codex, over-verification behavior 37:22 – TLDR restart & detailed breakdown 48:40 – Open Source AI section begins (Bonsai/Prism ML, Kimi K3) 58:42 – Inkling (Thinking Machines) deep dive & 3D model visualization 1:10:33 – Kimi K3 discussion & demo comparisons 1:27:02 – Frontier Labs: AGI governance framework discussion (Demis Hassabis…

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