AI coding tools, macOS utilities, and developer-focused products dominated today's launches.
Massive day for AI. Moonshot released Kimi K2.5 with swarm-mode agents, OpenAI launched a free science workspace, and DeepSeek dropped a novel OCR model.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5 — a 1 trillion parameter MoE model (32B active). Global SOTA on agentic benchmarks: 50.2% on HLE, 74.9% on BrowseComp. Open-source on Hugging Face.
The standout feature is Agent Swarm mode — coordinates up to 100 sub-agents with 1,500 tool calls, running 4.5x faster than single-agent approaches. Native multimodality and 76.8% on SWE-bench Verified. Update: K2 was covered yesterday, but K2.5 is a significant new release with swarm capabilities.
Quick hits — research papers and smaller model releases.
Alibaba dropped the full-fidelity Z-Image model, and RTX 50-series users are getting serious speed gains.
Alibaba's Tongyi-MAI releases the full-fidelity Z-Image model — the non-distilled version of Z-Image Turbo with more creative control, better suited for fine-tuning and LoRA training. Day-0 ComfyUI support. GGUF versions available.
Also released Z-Image I2L (Image to LoRA) — generate a LoRA from a single reference image. Update: Z-Image Turbo was covered before, but the non-distilled release and I2L tool are new.
Quick hits — workflows and tools.
Lots of macOS utilities and self-hosted tools this week. Dispatcharr brings the *arr experience to IPTV.
Quick hits — macOS tools, self-hosted apps, and updates.