Odaily Planet Daily News AI startup Moonshot AI recently released the open-weight model Kimi K3, claiming it can compete with leading systems from OpenAI and Anthropic at a lower cost. The company also stated that the model can more efficiently convert computing power into AI capabilities.
After the launch of Kimi K3, Moonshot AI suspended new subscriptions because the demand was so strong that it exceeded the company's computing capacity. The model had already sparked widespread discussion on the Chinese internet prior to this.
On Weibo, topics related to Kimi K3 once rose to the trending list, with discussions focusing on whether open-weight models can challenge the proprietary systems of US companies, as well as changes in the computing power demands of China's AI industry. Other topics focused on the comparison between Kimi K3 and Anthropic's Claude.
Elon Musk also stated that the initial training of xAI's next-generation Grok 4.6 model is in its final stages, and a 2 trillion parameter version may surpass Kimi. Moonshot AI's official Weibo account subsequently responded: "Welcome to the 2 Trillion+ Club."
According to Gate data, spot silver surged 5% intraday, now trading at $59.23/oz.
Odaily reported that Morph has announced the launch of Morph Tachyon, an independent Layer1 specifically designed for on-chain trading and high-performance financial markets. Morph stated that the existing Ethereum Layer2 will continue to support payments, stablecoins, and open financial scenarios, while Tachyon will provide a dedicated infrastructure environment for trading, further expanding Morph's on-chain financial ecosystem.
As an independent Layer1, Morph Tachyon possesses its own consensus mechanism and settlement system. It targets a block time of 200 milliseconds, a throughput of up to 200,000 transactions per second, and supports instant finality, a gas-free transaction experience, and an EVM-compatible development environment.
Morph noted that the decentralized perpetual trading platform PopDEX will build its trading infrastructure based on Tachyon. The two parties will collaborate to advance the development of high-performance trading scenarios focused on on-chain derivatives, liquidity, and capital efficiency.
Odaily reported that Global Chain Business has completed its global ecosystem launch conference, attracting approximately 6,000 participants from over 20 countries and regions to join online.
During the conference, the new Global Chain Business Financial Academy was also launched, along with the release of the 2026-2027 global ecosystem strategic plan.
Its core infrastructure, Webbridge Securities and Omin Market, have been launched simultaneously. During the public beta phase, the cumulative registered users reached 200,000, and the transaction volume of a single STO ecosystem exceeded $300 million.
Odaily reported that Citrini analyst jukan posted on the X platform, stating that Nikkei reports TSMC plans to increase prices for advanced and mature process foundry services by up to 10% by 2027, with base price increases ranging from 5% to 10%, reflecting rising costs for materials, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and the construction of new overseas wafer fabs.
Odaily reported that Michael Saylor posted on X platform, stating that the impulse to change Bitcoin's rules to prevent others from using Bitcoin in ways you disagree with is tinged with statism and runs counter to a community rooted in freedom, property rights, free markets, natural law, and Austrian economics. BIP-110 will impose monetary purity by executive order.
Odaily Odaily reports that, according to data from MSX.COM, TSMC's U.S. listed shares have risen over 3.2% in pre-market trading. As previously reported, TSMC plans to raise its foundry service prices for advanced and mature process chips by up to 10% in 2027.
Odaily reported that Binance stated on X platform, please be ready to claim the Binance Alpha airdrop at 19:00 (UTC+8) today. This event adopts an upgraded Alpha Box model, with the airdrop pool containing tokens from multiple projects. Users who have at least 256 Binance Alpha points can claim a token reward on a first-come, first-served basis. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points.
Additionally, this airdrop features three reward tiers: Common, Rare, and Super Rare, accounting for 80%, 15%, and 5% of the reward pool respectively. Each tier corresponds to a different Alpha Box value. When claiming, users will be automatically assigned to one of these tiers. If all rewards are not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 every 5 minutes.
Odaily Odaily reported that digital asset investment firm CoinShares has announced the launch of a new investment platform and the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining UCITS ETF, entering the European UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) market ecosystem, which is valued at $30 trillion.
CoinShares stated that this initiative aims to help the company expand its business to major European institutional investors, including pension funds, insurance companies, and private banks. (The Block)
