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🇨🇳 Open weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro are out from @Kimi_Moonshot
Agent Arena ranks it #1 among open models after 17.5K+ real long-horizon agentic sessions
Its net improvement of +5.1% puts it #13 overall
That is 4.2 points above Kimi K3 (Max), which sat at +0.9%
It leads open models in Work, Code and Chat
The biggest jump is in Bash Reliability, which went from -4.5% for K3 to +7.9%
most of them will end up using it without even calling it that
it'll just be sitting inside the apps they already open every day
I'm using SI more now because it can do more.
It's like talking to a human assistant, and more importantly, it can just do things.
SI is no longer just an alternative to Google search.
It can do real work.
It does it well, and incredibly fast.
Imagine one year from now.
Imagine two years from now.
Most people who say that they will never use SI will be using it soon.
did not expect mercury to gold to show up in a crypto recap this year
if gold supply ever turns into an engineering problem, a supply cap written in code starts looking like the last scarcity nobody can manufacture
this weekly scope is worth the full read
no 4 is where i'm at right now
replying to people in my niche every day
no 5 is the one i'm still working on honestly
Checklist for building distribution in tech:
1. Learn to express and present yourself, in writing or on camera, whatever distribution channel you choose.
2. Research your market and know your ICP. Spray and pray isn't sustainable.
3. Follow people in your niche, especially your ICP. Don't wait for the algorithm to find you.
4. Post, comment, engage, and build relationships.
5. ELI5 your product. Break down every word until someone outside your niche can understand it.
6. Think you've mastered steps 1–5? Start again. Keep improving.
7. When doubt creeps in, you fail, or you think "screw it, this doesn't work," go back to steps 1–5.
That's it. There's no secret formula.
Do it well, do it consistently, and do it with intention. The results will come.
Ptah has closed the first IAO test and published the final numbers.
826 wallets joined the presale, contributing 463.1 BNB in total.
All presale funds will be fully refunded to the participants.
The liquidity pool will instead be added with team funds.
Presale participants still claim their IAO allocation as planned.
39,734 wallets claimed the airdrop during the test window.
LP goes in after most presale participants have claimed their allocation.
The presale buyers end up with their BNB back and the tokens.
Agent #35220
#ProofOfAgent @Ptahtrade
Ptah is introducing the first IAO in crypto
it stands for Initial Agent Offering
unlike ICOs or IDOs that sell tokens to people, this one is built for the agentic economy
@Ptahtrade is running an open launchpad on BNB Chain so projects can bring ideas to market through agents
right now it is in testing with two ways in
airdrop is only for Proof of Agent card holders
11,250 IAO per card
post with your Agent number and #IAO, then submit the link at ptah.trade/iao
presale is open to anyone
deposit BNB for a share, 0.04 BNB minimum, runs for 24 hours
once testing ends the launchpad opens to other project teams
Agent #35220
#IAO #ProofOfAgent @Ptahtrade
Minting the Ptah Proof of Agent card needs the Binance Agentic Wallet that holds your Agent ID
Connecting a normal wallet through the Binance app often fails to hit the right address
the working path is the AI agent prompt on Binance AI Pro: paste it, review the preview, confirm
that is what actually minted the card for me
soulbound rules tomorrow
Agent #35220
#ProofOfAgent @Ptahtrade
Ptah is running a social mining campaign for Binance Agent ID holders
mint a free Proof of Agent card at ptah.trade/poa. gas only, cost me about a cent
the card number becomes your Agent number
that number is what gets you into the daily draw, so don't lose it
how the draw actually works tomorrow
Agent #35220
#ProofOfAgent @Ptahtrade
Every Ptah draw can be checked on chain
the entrant list gets hashed and committed before the seed block even exists
the seed is the hash of a block 4,444 blocks after the cutoff, nobody can know it in advance
I re-ran draw 3 myself and all 500 winners matched slot by slot
also got picked in draw 4, 6,066 PTAH landed in the wallet without claiming anything
the Agentic Wallet catch, tomorrow
Agent #35220
#ProofOfAgent @Ptahtrade
The Ptah draw runs every day at 04:44 UTC
every card posted with #ProofOfAgent since the last cutoff is in
500 cards get picked and split that day's PTAH pool
no claiming, winnings land straight in the wallet holding the card
15 draws in total, so a skipped day is just one less ticket
how they keep the picks honest, tomorrow
Agent #35220
#ProofOfAgent @Ptahtrade
Ptah is running a social mining campaign for Binance Agent ID holders
mint a free Proof of Agent card at ptah.trade/poa. gas only, cost me about a cent
the card number becomes your Agent number
that number is what gets you into the daily draw, so don't lose it
how the draw actually works tomorrow
Agent #35220
#ProofOfAgent @Ptahtrade
Ptah is running a social mining campaign for Binance Agent ID holders
mint a free Proof of Agent card at ptah.trade/poa. gas only, cost me about a cent
the card number becomes your Agent number
that number is what gets you into the daily draw, so don't lose it
how the draw actually works tomorrow
Agent #35220
#ProofOfAgent @Ptahtrade
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on the quantum threat to cryptography: "The good news is postquantum cryptography is understood. It's well known. The code is written but people have been too lazy to get to it."
"DARPA has been running a competition called QBI or quantum benchmarking initiative. Um a couple of hundred companies joined it a couple of years ago. I think it's down to maybe 13 are left. So that tells you kind of what's maybe real. I'm calling it maybe not quite real. Some of it is real."
"And so their goal is who can build a quantum computer that works. Let's sort of put the technology side out of it. And the debates are is it 2028, 2029, 2033 and sort of if you pick the middle point, let's call it 2030."
"Well, it will break today's cryptography. That's not a supposition. That's just a reality."
"Unfortunately for some of you, what's even worse? If you have an encrypted hard disk today that gets stolen, somebody could keep it for 5 years and break it at that point."
also nice knowing the weights won't change on you overnight
closed apis get quietly updated and your evals start drifting for no obvious reason
with open weights the model you tested is the one you ship
so every vision eval run on luna before the fix was basically testing the bug
wonder how many takes on "luna is bad at images" got formed off those numbers
makes me trust launch week benchmarks even less
OpenAI's image bug fix made a big difference for GPT-6 Luna and almost none for GPT-6 Sol.
Andon Labs' Blueprint-Bench 2 tests whether a model can draw an apartment floor plan from photos of it.
Luna scored 0.02 before the fix and 0.31 after.
Sol went from 0.34 to 0.37, within its margin of error.
Both still score below Gemini 3.8 Flash.
Fixed Luna now scores level with Gemini 3.6 Flash.
Models older than Sonnet 5 still took about 36% of Anthropic spend on OpenRouter in the week of Sep 14.
Opus 5 was the biggest single model at 29%.
Fable 5.1 pulled roughly 15% of spend on about 10% of tokens.
Opus 5.5 is launching into a user base that hasn't fully left the older models yet.
google at least showed you ten links and let you judge for yourself
an agent shows you one answer and you never see what lost
paid placement gets a lot easier to hide when the user only ever sees the winner
The AI agent race will be the most important tech race in human history
1000x bigger than the AI model race
Whoever wins gets ALL our personal data, gets a % of ALL our transactions, and basically determines the information we see and what we purchase
Somehow AI agents have made people completely disregard privacy. Nobody cares. They connect literally EVERYTHING to their agents
All their emails, personal texts, calendars, buying habits, everything. Never in history have humans cared so little about privacy
We are willing to give up quite literally every piece of data we have in order to save time on responding to emails
And this isn't criticism. I've done it. I've connected everything to these agents. They're wildly helpful. I don't regret it. I'm making thr sacrifice to increase efficiency
But we are about to enter an age where all of these tech companies will pour every penny they have into pushing their agent. The prize for the winner is too big
They'll have every piece of data from all users, plus you know they will start taking a transaction fee from every purchase the agent makes
Not to mention the advertising opportunities. They will 100% start charging for companies to be prioritized when the agent makes buying decisions. This will be a bigger ad revenue opportunity than anything we've seen before
Agents will be the most profitable area in tech ever and it wont be remotely close.
Now it's just up to you if you want to give every piece of your data to Meta, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google
Elon Musk says he meant it when he said Dario Amodei is right, and that when people at Anthropic and OpenAI say their models are dangerous we should believe them
"Said more than I probably should have. I did try to clarify it in subsequent posts on X, but those get much less attention."
"What I meant by he's right is that the danger of AI is very significant at this point. That we need to do better with AI safety, or we have at this point exponentially increasing risk with the AI models."
"And I've heard this not just from Dario, but from many other people at Anthropic, and in fact they've posted on X about it."
"When a lot of people from Anthropic and from OpenAI are telling you that their models are very dangerous, I think we should believe them."