Kimi K3.1 Pro Is The Strongest Open-Weight Model Yet, Matching Opus 5.5 And GPT-6 Astra

Today's AI news: Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight MoE with a 1M context, ranked fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, with weights due November 4. Block unveiled Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained from scratch on human conversation. 1Password launched 1Password for Agents, letting AI agents log in without seeing your passwords. Subquadratic's SubQ Snap 1.1 tied for first on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index. And Palmer Luckey's Warhound raised $200 million to gene-edit military working dogs. Chapters: 0:00 Today's AI News 0:31 Kimi K3.1 Pro 1:24 Block Dessa 2:07 1Password for Agents 2:53 SubQ Snap 1.1 3:35 Warhound Blend Roundup 2026-10-23 https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2113680701770068067 https://x.com/jack/status/2113697902916751661 https://x.com/1Password/status/2113276767582498943 https://x.com/alex_whedon/status/2113356853308469444 https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2113445599001600016 Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro is the strongest open-weight model yet, ranking fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Jack Dorsey's Block builds a voice model that talks like a person, 1Password lets AI agents log in without seeing your passwords, a tiny decision model ties for top spot on its leaderboard, and Palmer Luckey wants to gene-edit military dogs. Here's today's AI news. Moonshot has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, its most capable open-weight model yet. It's a mixture of experts with 2.8 trillion total parameters and 104 billion active, a million-token context, and image input. Moonshot says it can build full game projects in Unreal and Unity, create parametric 3D models in Blender and CAD, and hallucinates 65 percent less on finance work. On Moonshot's own numbers it scores 65.7 percent on Terminal-Bench 4, ahead of GPT-6 Astra and just behind Opus 5.5, and Artificial Analysis puts it fourth on its Intelligence Index, the highest of any open-weight model. API pricing is 2 dollars in and 10 out per million tokens, and the open weights arrive by November 4th. Block, Jack Dorsey's company, has unveiled Dessa, which it calls the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Full-duplex means it listens and talks at the same time, so it can drop in a "yeah" or "got it" while you're speaking, and you can interrupt it naturally. It works speech to speech with no text in between, so it keeps emotion, sarcasm, laughter and pauses. Block trained it from scratch on human conversation using a single NVIDIA GB200 system, and it runs locally on a high-end MacBook Pro. There are no benchmarks yet, and early access is limited to a waitlist and a small group of AI safety researchers. 1Password has launched 1Password for Agents, a way for AI agents to log in for you without ever seeing your passwords. When an agent hits a sign-in form, it requests a credential from your vault. You approve it, and 1Password fills in the login directly, so the agent finishes the job but never holds the password. Access is per session, it's free for personal and family accounts, and agents can't touch your vault unless you opt in. Partners include Anthropic, OpenAI, Grok Bot, Meta's Muse and Perplexity, with some integrations still rolling out. It lands the same week Axios reported banks finding unauthorised AI agents inside customer accounts. Subquadratic has released SubQ Snap 1.1, a model built for one job: making decisions inside enterprise software. It's tied for first on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index, eight points clear of Jev, though much of that score comes from knowing when not to answer rather than raw accuracy. It decides when to call a tool, when to ask and when to decline, with 81 percent fewer confident errors on questions it can't answer. It has a nearly 400,000-token context with constant compute per token, and it costs 4 cents per million input tokens, with output free. Palmer Luckey has co-founded Warhound, a startup that wants to genetically engineer dogs for the US military. Alongside Colossal Biosciences' Ben Lamm, it came out of stealth with 200 million dollars in seed funding led by Sequoia, at a 1.2 billion dollar valuation. Warhound says more than 80 percent of US military working dogs come from Europe, and fewer than half are fit for service. It plans to bank cells from top Belgian Malinois and German Shepherds and use Colossal's cloning and gene editing to breed better ones, with Anduril supplying protective gear. The first puppies are due in early 2027.