Kimi K3 Redraws the Open Frontier, Muse Spark 1.1 Undercuts Competitors, Cloudflare Moves to Cut Off Crawlers
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OpenAI accidentally launched a cyberattack on Hugging Face via an autonomous agent, which succeeded in gaining unauthorized access; Hugging Face then used the open GLM 5.2 model to analyze attack logs after proprietary models refused due to safety guardrails. Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open vision-language model priced at $3.00 per million input tokens, that ranks third on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index and nearly matches top proprietary models while Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 at $1.25 per million input tokens. The incident and new open model releases demonstrate that openness can improve cybersecurity and compete with proprietary alternatives, pressuring closed-model providers to accelerate lobbying against open-weight models.
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