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Kimi K2 Beats Claude 4 Opus, Goldman Sachs Hires AI Coder & SpaceX invests $2 billion in xAI
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What's Up in AI
July 16, 2025
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Moonshot wasn’t on most people’s radar — now its open-source Kimi K2 is outperforming some of the biggest names in AI. SpaceX might pour $2B into xAI, blurring Musk’s empire even further. And Goldman Sachs? They’ve quietly let an AI take on full engineering workflows.
In today’s issue:
🤯 Kimi K2 Beats Claude 4 Opus
🧠 Goldman Sachs Hires AI Coder
📈 SpaceX invests $2 billion in xAI
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh
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LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
China’s Moonshot AI just dropped Kimi K2, a 1T parameter model (32B active) that’s open source and crazy good.
It beats Claude 4 Opus and GPT-4.1 on multiple coding + reasoning benchmarks.
The fact that it’s fully open is turning heads — you can fine-tune it, inspect it, or just build cool stuff on top.
Devs are calling it another “DeepSeek moment”, where an underdog shows frontier strength.
Until now, Moonshot was barely known outside China — that’s likely to change fast.
SpaceX is reportedly investing $2B in Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, part of a bigger $10B raise.
This would be SpaceX’s first direct investment in another Musk-led venture.
xAI’s chatbot Grok already powers Starlink support, with more cross-company integrations expected.
Musk has a long history of blending his companies, including folding xAI into X earlier this year.
Despite Grok’s recent backlash, Tesla plans to bring it into cars, showing Musk isn’t backing down.
Goldman Sachs has partnered with Cognition to bring on Devin, the AI coding agent.
Unlike other banks, it’s not just using AI for support — Devin runs full workflows solo.
This makes Goldman the first major bank to let an AI handle full-stack engineering.
Devin sparked the vibe coding trend when it launched last year — and it's still going strong.
Rival firms like JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley are dabbling too, but Goldman just leveled up.
BRAIN BOOST 🧠
🧨 If a barely-known Chinese startup just beat GPT-4.1 with an open-source model… what should really have Big Tech worried? |
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3-THINGS IN TREND
Replit’s Matt Palmer shows how to build and deploy a simple game with Grok 4 and Replit in under two minutes.
A Reddit user came up with a clever prompt designed to curb ChatGPT’s hallucinations.
Want to see in the dark? Scientists in China have created contact lenses that give you night vision.
2-USEFUL LINKS
1-TOP ROBO NEWS
According to researchers at the University of Manchester, our aviation radar systems blast over 2,000 trillion watts of signals into space potentially enough for aliens 200 light-years away to detect us. These signals could act as a cosmic beacon of intelligent life, but only if there’s a civilization out there with tech advanced enough to pick it up.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🎥 Luma AI Launches Dream Lab LA
Luma AI opened a creative studio in LA to help filmmakers and artists explore its AI video tools for next-gen entertainment production.
💻 Mistral Upgrades Devstral Series
Mistral introduced Devstral Small and Medium 2507, offering stronger performance for agent-based tasks and software engineering with cost savings.
📦 Reka AI Drops Flash 3.1
Reka AI open-sourced Flash 3.1, a 21B parameter model with improved coding skills and top-tier quantization for nearly lossless compression.
🎓 Claude Expands in Education
Anthropic announced new integrations for Claude in Canvas, plus Panopto and Wiley support via MCP, deepening its education footprint.
🎮 Game Actors End Strike Over AI Rights
SAG-AFTRA video game actors approved a deal securing consent and disclosure for AI use in digital replicas, officially ending their strike.
Funding 💰️
AirMDR, recently raised $15.5 million in seed round funding.
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