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New open-weight frontier models, infinite context and why AI doesn’t seem to pay off outside of tech yet

• Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro
  A new iteration of the already capable open-weight model Kimi K3. In its benchmarks it plays in the same league as the other frontier models and on some even beats them. The weights will be released Nov 4th but it is available now via API and subscription.

• Voxtral 3
  Finally a really good voice model from a European lab (Mistral). According to the benchmarks it’s top of the class so far.

• Claude Duet
  Anthropic released their always-on cloud agent, similar to Grok Bot, Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots. It’s driven by Opus 5.5, which should make it rather interesting.

• No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector
  Apart from big tech and startups, AI has yet to deliver a financial payoff to most companies in America. This might be due to change being slow in other sectors of the economy or to a general issue of accountability and trust.

• uniichat released
  @VictorTaelin released uniichat which promises infinite context / memory. It’s still very much in preview, and bugs are expected. For a deep dive you can look here: OptChat