Weekly Views: Domestic Large Models Iterate Faster, July Game Licenses Hit New Year High

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AI: Moonshot AI released its new flagship model Kimi K3 on July 16, with a total parameter scale of 2.8 trillion, a 1 million Token context window, and native visual understanding capabilities. It is currently the world's largest open-source model by parameter count, with full weights expected to be released on July 27. This week, Alibaba released the preview version of its new flagship foundational model Qwen3.8-Max, with a parameter scale of 2.4 trillion, further improving complex reasoning, coding, and multimodal capabilities. DeepSeek V4 official version entered gray-scale testing, including Flash and Pro versions, with overall performance and coding capabilities continuing to approach top global closed-source models. It also introduced peak-valley billing for the first time to further reduce model invocation costs during off-peak hours. ...