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Thinking Machines released Inkling, instantly the strongest open weights in the West. The crown fit for about a day: Moonshot’s Kimi K3 arrived at 2.8 trillion parameters, dethroning Fable 5 in six of seven domains.

And an open pipeline of five adversarial reviewer personas beat human analysis of architecture papers in 15 of 20 blind comparisons. Peer review scales better without the peers.

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