| 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).