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AI Agents · Benchmark · Alex Rivera · Oct 23, 2026 · 10 min

Kimi K3.1 Pro Closes the Open-Weight Gap

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro ships with a 1M-token context, $2/$10 per million tokens, and open weights promised by November 4. Independent testing puts it fourth overall and first on Terminal-Bench 4.0.

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Benchmarks · Benchmark · Alex Rivera · Oct 6, 2026 · 14 min

Mistral Named the Trillion-Param Model Le Chonk

1 trillion parameters, 49 billion active, trained on 3,800 GB200s in Europe. Preview API today. Weights by the end of October. Cyber is the pitch.

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Benchmarks · Benchmark · Alex Rivera · Sep 17, 2026 · 18 min

Agents Get a Trustmark

AIUC-1 is trying to be SOC 2 for agents: thousands of evals, a certificate, and now a $40M Series A to sell audits and insurance. A badge is not a kill switch.

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AI Agents · Comparison · Alex Rivera · Sep 17, 2026 · 14 min

Salesforce Splits the Stack: Koa In-House, Claude at the Door

Koa is a CRM reasoner Salesforce trains and hosts. Claudeforce puts 37 sales skills inside Claude. Same Dreamforce week; two control models.

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AI Agents · Deep dive · Alex Rivera · Sep 17, 2026 · 16 min

A Map of AI That Improves Itself Is Not a Launch Date

A ByteDance–Tsinghua–Shanghai AI Lab preprint ranks 491 papers on five rungs of recursive self-improvement. The interesting part is what the ladder does not measure.

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