Kimi K3 tops Text Arena's science-query leaderboard

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Hot Model News

1. Kimi K3 tops Text Arena science query rankings; community praises cost-performance
2. Tencent Hunyuan Hy3 debuts at WAIC with cloud AI skills payment system
3. SenseTime unveils SenseNova U1 Pro, a multimodal flagship targeting long-horizon tasks
4. Tianpuyue music model V4.7 released, boosting remix and cover capabilities

AI Circle News 5. Moonshot AI eyes Hong Kong IPO within 6 months following Kimi K3 launch 6. Databricks hits $188B valuation, riding open-weight AI cost savings 7. TRAE Work publishes 400,000-character AI knowledge base for real-world office tasks 8. GOAI Open-source AI Challenge opens global registration, focusing on agent infra 9. UniTac gives robots "tactile imagination," accepted to ECCV 2026

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Kimi K3 tops Text Arena science query rankings; community praises cost-performance

A screenshot shared by a Reddit user showed Kimi K3 ranking first in the Text Arena when filtered for science queries. In the same discussion, users noted that while DeepSeek has long dominated price-to-performance charts, Kimi K3's scores are redrawing the performance landscape. Separately, a community user demonstrated Kimi K3 recreating macOS 27 in a web browser with a single prompt in 3.5 hours. Source: rLocalLLaMA (science) · rLocalLLaMA (perf) · rLocalLLaMA/demo

Tencent Hunyuan Hy3 debuts at WAIC with cloud AI skills payment system

At WAIC 2026, Tencent showcased its Hunyuan Hy3 large language model and introduced a cloud-based AI skills payment system. Under the theme "Hey, my AI Buddy," Tencent displayed their full AI matrix, with visitors able to experience agents like WorkBuddy on the show floor. Tencent Group VP Li Kan said AI is evolving from a tool into a partner, from single-point capabilities into a system ecosystem. Source: InfoQ

SenseTime unveils SenseNova U1 Pro, a multimodal flagship targeting long-horizon tasks

SenseTime launched SenseNova U1 Pro at WAIC 2026, positioned as a delivery-grade native multimodal agent base model designed for long-horizon tasks, unifying understanding, generation, and action. The company claims deep iteration in visual creation enables complex image generation comparable to top global models, signaling a shift from single-shot content generation to systematic content delivery. Source: TMTPost

Tianpuyue music model V4.7 released, boosting remix and cover capabilities

Quwan Technology launched Tianpuyue V4.7 at WAIC 2026, integrating it into the conversational music creation agent Tunee and making it available via OpenAPI. V4.7 upgrades remix rewriting and cover abilities, allowing users to reimagine arrangements and vocal styles while preserving core melodies. Third-party evaluations on Meta Audiobox Aesthetics and SongEval benchmarks scored the model high on enjoyment, memorability, and audio clarity. Source: TMTPost

AI Circle News

Moonshot AI eyes Hong Kong IPO within 6 months following Kimi K3 launch

Sources told 36Kr that Moonshot AI has informed investors of corporate restructuring in preparation for a Hong Kong IPO, potentially completing it within six months. On July 16, the company released Kimi K3, the world's largest open-source model by parameter count, which scored above Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 on Code Arena. Source: 36Kr

Databricks hits $188B valuation, riding open-weight AI cost savings

TechCrunch reports that Databricks has reached a valuation of $188 billion. The company has rebranded itself as an AI company and published research highlighting cost savings from open-weight AI models for coding, cementing its second-act dominance in the AI space. Source: TechCrunch AI

TRAE Work publishes 400,000-character AI knowledge base for real-world office tasks

ByteDance's TRAE Work has released a publicly accessible AI knowledge base, spanning realistic scenarios including education, document writing, data analysis, presentation design, and workflow automation. Each guide integrates a complete loop of "Prompt → TRAE Work generation → deliverable," attracting over 18,000 visits within six hours of launch. Source: TMTPost

GOAI Open-source AI Challenge opens global registration, focusing on agent infra

The GOAI World Open-source AI Challenge launched its official website and opened registration globally, hosted by the Hangzhou Open Source AI Foundation and co-organized by Zhejiang Lab, Alibaba Cloud, and Ant Group. The competition revolves around three tracks—agent infrastructure, boundless applications, and embodied future—seeking runnable, verifiable open-source AI projects worldwide. Source: InfoQ

UniTac gives robots "tactile imagination," accepted to ECCV 2026

UniX AI, together with Zhejiang University, MIT, Oxford, and others, published UniTac, a unified cross-sensor tactile understanding and generation architecture integrated with VLA policy models. UniTac enables robots to predict tactile properties before contact, and the research has been accepted to ECCV 2026. Source: QbitAI