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Some of Google’s most influential engineers and AI researchers are leaving after decades at the company.

Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le have joined forces to launch Discovery Loop, a new AI startup focused on using AI to automate scientific and engineering discovery.

What makes this story remarkable is not just the new company — it’s who is behind it. These are people who helped build some of the technologies that shaped modern Google and AI.

Even more interesting: Alphabet is reportedly backing Discovery Loop as an investor and cloud partner.

The AI talent war is entering a new phase — and some of the people who built the biggest tech companies are now building the next generation themselves.

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Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a powerful 2.8 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1-million-token context window and native multimodality. Already topping coding benchmarks (including beating Claude Fable 5 in frontend coding on Arena), it’s available now via the Kimi app and API, with full open weights dropping on July 27. Due to massive demand, new subscriptions are temporarily paused as they scale capacity. This marks a major step for open-weight frontier AI.

#KimiK3 #MoonshotAI #AIModel #OpenSourceAI

Meta just went all-in on agentic AI with Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal model built for end-to-end coding workflows, computer use, and multi-agent orchestration. At $1.25/million input tokens and $4.25/million output tokens, it undercuts most rivals. Benchmarks show 88.1% on MCP Atlas (scaled tool use) and 80.8% on OSWorld-Verified (agentic computer use). Mark Zuckerberg even posted on X for the first time in 3 years to hype it. Now available via Meta Model API with $20 free credits for US developers.

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