Coauthored with Claude Security looms large as November begins, according to O'Reilly Radar's monthly trends roundup. The report describes a certificate authority with weak private keys, vulnerabilities found and exploited in PHP and other widely used programs, and several organizations that detected Chinese open weight models behaving unexpectedly in different ways.
On AI models, the report says Kimi 3.1 Pro is a new open weight model with 3T tokens. It says the model now leads open weight benchmarks, slightly behind the latest frontier models. Moonshot AI also released Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, which the report says is two to three times faster.
Recursive has announced Flint, a 40B parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates 2.5B parameters per token. The report says it was designed for coding, is open weight, and works with Ollama.
Meta has shipped Muse Spark Open, an open weight mixture-of-experts model with 816B parameters and 42B active parameters. Meta claims it competes with the best Chinese open weight models. The report also says Meta's Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full claim parity with Claude and ChatGPT for financial and legal work.
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