The Sequence Radar #897: Last Week in AI: China, Compression and the Open-Model Race

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Multiple AI labs released competing model architectures this week: Thinking Machines open-sourced Inkling (975B parameters, open weights), Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 (2.8T parameters), and PrismML released Bonsai 27B (compressed to 3.9GB for smartphones). OpenAI introduced GPT-Red, an automated red-teaming system that successfully compromised GPT-5.1 in 84% of test scenarios through self-play training. The week's developments reflect a shift from centralized AI concentration toward distributed, adapted, and locally-deployable models, with geopolitical implications as China's Xi Jinping promoted open-source AI as a global public good at the Shanghai World AI Conference.