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Raffi Krikorian
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CTO @mozilla. board: @tumocenter & @medic. fmr CTO @EmCollective & director @uber ATC (🤖 🚗)
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    Raffi Krikorian
    @raffi
    Jul 31
    important reminder, open weights is not open source. v4-flash-0731 keeps april's architecture, post-training is what got rerun. terminal-bench 2.1 moved from 61.8 to 82.7. deepseek moved from 7.3 to 54.4. the weights are MIT and are live on hugging face today. the harness those
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    DeepSeek
    @deepseek_ai
    Jul 31
    🚀 DeepSeek-V4-Flash Official API is now LIVE in public beta! 🔷 We’ve massively upgraded its Agent capabilities—benchmark scores are now far surpassing the V4-Pro-Preview. Check out the massive performance leap below! 👇 🔷 The official V4-Flash now natively supports the
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    Raffi Krikorian
    @raffi
    Jul 31
    kimi k3 dropped this week so i pointed claude code at it. three env variables and it was running (base url, auth token, model string). slash commands, hooks, and CLAUDE.md all kept working. i ran 30 tests across five setups: claude code + opus 5 as control, claude code + k3
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    Raffi Krikorian
    @raffi
    Jul 28
    june 12: washington barred any foreign nationals from using anthropic's frontier AI model. anthropic couldn't verify user nationality in real time, so the model went dark. for everyone. my @WSJopinion op-ed: ai shouldn't require a permission slip. the defining question for the
    AI Shouldn’t Require a Permission Slip
    Opinion | AI Shouldn’t Require a Permission Slip
    From wsj.com
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    Raffi Krikorian
    @raffi
    Jul 27
    the kimi k3 weights are OUT. 2.8 trillion parameters. free. right now. go get them. i’ll wait. it’s a big download.
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    Kimi.ai
    @Kimi_Moonshot
    Jul 27
    Releasing the model weights and technical report of Kimi K3. Kimi K3 is our most capable model: a 2.8T MoE model with native visual understanding and a 1M-token context window. New model architecture: 2.5x the intelligence per unit of compute, not just more params. Alongside
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    Raffi Krikorian
    @raffi
    Jul 24
    this is so important. open weights / models aren't a nice-to-have anymore - they increase innovation. its like the internet - open protocols with trillions in market cap built upon them. this is about competition, security, and the whole ecosystem. mozilla signed for a reason.
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    Mozilla
    @mozilla
    Jul 24
    We joined this important open letter today from companies across the spectrum urging continued support for Open Source and open weight models. As the letter says and our State of Open Source AI report shows, open weight AI can expand opportunity and strengthen competition.
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