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Your Weekly Highlights of Top AI Events Happening Next Week (January 26th)

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Dmitry Spodarets

· Jan 26, 2025

Your Weekly Highlights of Top AI Events Happening Next Week (January 26th)

Moonshot AI launches Kimi K2.5; claims it is "the most powerful open-source model to date"

China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, an open source multimodal model with agent swarm technology that enables up to 100 sub-agents to work in parallel, alongside Kimi Code, a coding tool that rivals Anthropic's Claude Code.

Feb 03, 2026

by Ellie Ramirez-Camara

News

Arcee AI released a 400B-parameter open source Llama 4 Maverick challenger

Arcee AI, a 30-person US startup, released Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter open source model that rivals Meta's Llama 4 Maverick, addressing concerns about China's dominance in open-weight models and uncertainty around US companies' commitment to open source AI.

Jan 31, 2026

by Ellie Ramirez-Camara

News

A new benchmark backed by Mercor shows AI agents struggle with real workplace tasks

A new benchmark called APEX-Agents reveals that leading AI models still cannot reliably perform complex tasks requiring context-switching and multi-domain reasoning. APEX-Agents tests performance on tasks simulating real-world scenarios, with no tested model surpassing 24% accuracy in the benchmark.

Jan 29, 2026

by Ellie Ramirez-Camara

News

Meta cuts off teens' access to AI characters amid safety concerns

Meta is pausing teen access to AI characters globally across its apps while developing a safer version with parental controls, amid mounting legal pressure over child safety concerns.

Jan 27, 2026

by Ellie Ramirez-Camara

News

Symbolic.ai Partners with News Corp to Deploy AI Publishing Platform

Symbolic.ai has partnered with News Corp to deploy its AI publishing platform in newsrooms, starting with Dow Jones Newswires, where early testing showed up to 90% productivity gains for complex research tasks.

Jan 24, 2026

by Ellie Ramirez-Camara

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Your Weekly Highlights of Top AI Events Happening Next Week (January 26th)

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Moonshot AI launches Kimi K2.5; claims it is "the most powerful open-source model to date"

Arcee AI released a 400B-parameter open source Llama 4 Maverick challenger

A new benchmark backed by Mercor shows AI agents struggle with real workplace tasks

Meta cuts off teens' access to AI characters amid safety concerns

Symbolic.ai Partners with News Corp to Deploy AI Publishing Platform