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AIMoonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source thinking model that interleaves step-by-step reasoning with tool calls across 200 to 300 sequential invocations.

Why it matters: The model card gives benchmark tables, quantization details, and deployment settings, letting readers compare Kimi K2 Thinking against GPT-5 and other models on specific tasks.

AIMoonshot AI released Kimi Linear, a hybrid linear attention architecture with 48B total and 3B activated parameters and a 1M-token context length, on Hugging Face.

Why it matters: The model card gives concrete long-context speed and memory figures for a hybrid attention design, useful for judging whether linear attention can replace full attention in practice.

AIMoonshot AI has released Kimi-Linear-Base and Kimi-Linear-Instruct, both 48B total and 3B activated parameters with a 1M context length, on Hugging Face.

Why it matters: The model card gives concrete throughput and KV cache figures for a hybrid attention design, which helps readers weigh its long-context tradeoffs against full attention.

AIA ByteDance research team won the Best Paper Award at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2021 for VOLT, a simple and efficient machine translation solution. The team has open-sourced VOLT for developers to use.

AIJanne, a Research Scientist on ByteDance's Intelligent Creation Team in London, says the energy of a fast-growing company gives her room to experiment creatively with technology.

AIByteDance's R&D team created the technology behind TikTok's "Cartoonify" sticker in just 48 hours during its annual Hackathon. The augmented reality effect makes physical objects on screen dance, cry, sing, and perform other actions.