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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Alibaba has officially fired back at Moonshot AI's weekend Kimi K3 drop, previewing a massive 2.4 trillion-parameter model of its own. As the Chinese open-weight price war intensifies, this edition of…
Moonshot AI's weekend release of the Kimi K3 model has officially rattled Western markets, turning what began as a new benchmark for open-weight context windows into a geopolitical pivot point. This e…
The open-weight ecosystem is delivering on its promise to match the performance of proprietary APIs. Between Moonshot AI's official launch of Kimi K3 and Google finally rolling out Gemini 3.5 Pro afte…
The capital markets are doubling down on the specialized AI thesis. Fireworks AI just pulled in a massive $1.5 billion round on the bet that enterprises want to own and customize open-weight models, n…
Today on The Gateway Signal, new Vercel data provides hard numbers for the enterprise AI strategy we've been tracking: companies are actively routing high-volume tasks to cheap, open-weight models whi…
The wave of consolidation sweeping through AI developer tooling just hit observability. After Palo Alto's recent acquisition of gateway provider Portkey, ClickHouse has stepped in to acquire Langfuse,…
Today on The Gateway Signal, the multi-model orchestration layer just received a massive vote of confidence from capital markets. After weeks of tracking the '100x' token cost problem and the enterpri…
The enterprise AI budget crisis is forcing a hard fork in how companies deploy infrastructure. After weeks of tracking the massive token blowouts caused by multi-step agentic workflows, we're now seei…
Today on The Gateway Signal, the usage-based pricing chaos we've been documenting is finally colliding with the rollout of multi-step agentic workflows. As companies report extreme budget blowouts fro…
The drive for compute sovereignty in China has crossed a major threshold. After DeepSeek launched its custom silicon efforts earlier this week, peers like Zhipu AI are now following suit to bypass US …