Hacker Newsroom for 17 July: Kimi K3, Thinking Machines Inkling, Music Piracy Nostalgia, Sony Deletes Movies
Published: July 17, 2026
Duration: 8:14
Hacker Newsroom for 17 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through kimi k3, thinking machines inkling, music piracy nostalgia, sony deletes movies.
1. Kimi K3
The next story is Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence, a launch post for Kimi's new 2. 8-trillion-parameter model with native vision, a 1-million-token context window, and claims of frontier-level performance that still trails the very top proprietary systems.
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2. Thinking Machines Inkling
The next story is a Thinking Machines post introducing Inkling, an open-weights multimodal model...