freedom-intelligence/briefs/2026/08/2026-08-03.md
tegwick 70cbfe0c6c Catch up field brief, catalog Kimi K3, and wire live daily recurrence.
Add 2026-08-03 week catch-up brief with Kimi K3 as S1 strategic (collection
deferred on ~1454 GiB vs 850 GiB soft quota), document recurrence ops, and add a
workstation due-notice consumer cron helper. Production schedule was applied to
railiance ConfigMap and Temporal (weekdays 07:30 Europe/Berlin).
2026-08-03 17:37:53 +02:00

3.8 KiB

date timezone author status sources_checked
2026-08-03 Europe/Berlin grok final
research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md
briefs/2026/07/2026-07-28.md
public trackers (llm-stats, Artificial Analysis notes, HF moonshotai)
huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3

Freedom Intelligence Daily Brief — 2026-08-03

Week catch-up from 2026-07-28 (recurring automation did not fire).
Delta overview, not a full resurvey.

Headline deltas

  • Kimi K3 open weights (Moonshot, ~Jul 27): 2.8T MoE, ~1.45 TiB official tree, custom Kimi K3 License — currently #1 open-weight on several boards; primary strategic S1 candidate (storage exceeds 850 GiB soft quota as full tree).
  • DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731 (Jul 31): same cheap price/size class, large capability jump — strong open price-performance; revisit as mid-size S/W vs our R spine.
  • Closed frontier churn: Claude Fable 5 back after export pause; Claude Opus 5 / GPT-5.6 family / Grok 4.5 / Gemini Flash tiers all active in trackers.
  • Lab: FI daily brief still due since Jul 28 (only two prior events); R spine remains on VAULT; recurrence wiring resumed this session.
  • Reserve action: nominate moonshotai/Kimi-K3 as S1 strategic with collection deferred pending capacity decision (full pull ≈1.45 TiB).

Frontier & commercial (axis A)

Item Delta Sources Lab relevance
Claude Fable 5 / Opus 5 Fable restored; Opus competitive on coding/agentic trackers / AA notes Closed bar for harness evals via llm-connect
GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna GA; Luna deep discount end-Jul OpenAI pricing notes Budget routing tiers
Grok 4.5 Public coding-focused tier xAI product notes Compare agent coding bar
Gemini 3.5/3.6 Flash class Fast tiers shipping Google product notes Cheap closed automation

Edge / local / open (axis B)

Item Delta Sources Lab relevance
Kimi K3 Best open general/agentic class; 2.8T / 1M ctx / vision HF moonshotai/Kimi-K3 S1 identity; too large for 850 GiB soft quota as full tree
DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731 Open MIT-class value leader after Jul 31 retrain DeepSeek release trackers Candidate later mid-tier collect
GLM-5.2 Still “hostable strong open” for many teams trackers Alternative S dense if we skip full K3
Qwen 3.7/3.8-class Continued family updates Alibaba trackers Watch vs Qwen3-8B R default

Training & specialization (axis C)

(none material for lab this window — no new FT stack displacement vs Unsloth/axolotl baseline)

Harness & fleet (axis D)

Item Delta Sources Lab relevance
FI daily brief gap No automated brief since 2026-07-28 State Hub progress Wire recurrence + consumer this session
Agent swarm narrative (Kimi) Product emphasis on multi-agent / long-horizon Kimi product Align axis D watchlist with K3 agent demos

Collection candidates

id org name priority reason approx size license
moonshotai__Kimi-K3__strategic moonshotai Kimi-K3 high S1 best open general/agentic; displace V3 as primary strategic identity ~1454 GiB official custom (Kimi K3 License) — review commercial thresholds

Decision: catalog + defer download until soft-quota / disk exception. Prefer official compressed if/when published under soft quota.

Lab implications

  • Keep R spine (Qwen3-8B, R1-Distill-14B, embeds) as daily local defaults.
  • Update strategic plan: S1 = Kimi K3 (identity), not only DeepSeek-V3.
  • Unblock weekday schedule on activity-core (ConfigMap apply + sync + schedule check).
  • Llama-3.2-3B still blocked on HF token (unchanged).