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44 Moonshot AI and Zhipu
AI hardware and software R&D at Moonshot AI and Zhipu, from every daily edition, newest first · Curated by Dr.P.R.K.Varma
Software
21 October 2026
Kimi K3 (Moonshot) and GLM-5.3 (Zhipu) released August 2026
foundation models
SoftwareCompany or official announcementTRL: Commercial
Evidence: platform release log · TRL: commercial · Sources: help.aliyun.com · RKV-RND-2026-10-21-052
Full write-up from 21 October 2026
Latest verified R&D update. Date: 2026-08. Alibaba Cloud Model Studio lists Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 as August 2026 releases. On 20 October 2026, Zhipu's GLM 5.2 (about 753B parameters) appears as a third-party workload in the llm-d 1.0 demonstration (entry 20); that is not a Zhipu development. Evidence: platform release log. TRL: commercial. Source(s): https://help.aliyun.com/zh/model-studio/newly-released-models