Is Ramp an AI Company Now? Plus Kimi K3 Beats Fable on Front-End | This Week In AI
Shane and Abhi are live from London this week, and the big one is Kimi K3 — a 2.8 trillion parameter open frontier model with a million-token context window that lands right next to Fable 5 on the benchmarks, takes the number one spot on the front-end Code Arena, and reportedly doubles Fable's performance on legal tasks. Then demand got so heavy Moonshot had to pause new subscriptions.
Episode Transcript
Cold open
Welcome — live from London
Kimi K3: 2.8T parameters, open frontier intelligence
Number one on the front-end arena
Kimi K3 doubles Fable on legal tasks
Demand breaks capacity: subscriptions paused
What is Alibaba Cloud, and why speed matters
Fable stays in Max & Team plans
The Opus 5 leak
The distillation debate: whose data is it?
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement
Be a guest on the show
Grok Build goes open source
Thinking Machines' Inkling & the fine-tuning future
Three new Gemini models (and a sick dark horse)
Is Ramp an AI company? Ramp Router & the pivot call
Will our agents order us pizza? DoorDash CLI
Build your own CLI from network requests
Quick hits: OpenShip & AI SDK for Python
What the devil is a factory engineer?
GitHub star party: Yardarm
Outro
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