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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro weights as Huawei adds day-one Ascend support

Moonshot AI has published the weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8-trillion-parameter post-training overhaul of Kimi K3 that nearly ties Claude Opus 5.5 on agentic coding. Huawei says vLLM Ascend and SGLang support the model on Atlas A3 and Ascend 950 SuperPoDs from day one.

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Timeline · 43 reports

  1. 2026-11-05 02:23 · Pandaily
    Huawei Ascend Adds Day-Zero Support for Kimi K3.1 Pro Across Atlas A3 and Ascend 950 SuperPoDs
  2. 2026-11-04 20:54 · DEV Community — AI
    Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro Weights Are Now Open — Explained Honestly
  3. 2026-11-04 17:00 · Vercel Blog
    Kimi K3.1 Pro now has more ZDR providers on AI Gateway
  4. 2026-11-04 16:00 · AlphaSignal
    Moonshot AI Opens Kimi K3.1 Pro Weights to Beat Claude on Coding Agents
  5. 2026-11-04 15:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Kimi-K3.1-Pro is now open-weights
  6. 2026-11-04 12:56 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Weight-Space Programming
  7. 2026-11-04 12:15 · DEV Community — AI
    Moonshot AI's Kimi 3D Make Builds a Two-Arm Robot Workcell From a Single Prompt
  8. 2026-11-04 10:33 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Weight-Space Programming: how GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen's weights and took MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1%
  9. 2026-11-04 09:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Build a Same-Prompt Harness: Compare Kimi K3.1 Pro, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GPT-5.1, and Qwen3.8 Max on Meeting Notes
  10. 2026-11-04 08:44 · r/LocalLLM
    Deepseek v4–flash-0731,rtx5900+96gb or rtx spark 128gb?
  11. 2026-11-04 03:27 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Bagaimana GPT-6 Astra Memperbaiki Qwen3.5-0.8B dengan Mengedit 0,016% Bobotnya
  12. 2026-11-04 02:26 · r/mlscaling
    Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
  13. 2026-11-03 20:53 · Pandaily
    Huawei Cloud to Retire openPangu-2.0 Models From MaaS, Recommends DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and GLM-5.3
  14. 2026-11-03 19:26 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 can also do Weight-Space Programming
  15. 2026-11-03 19:14 · The Algorithmic Bridge
    The Dawn of a New AI Paradigm: Weight-Space Programming
  16. 2026-11-03 18:48 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I tried MIT's "weight-space programming" on my own use case: Claude rewrote 8 neurons of Gemma 4 12B to change how it translates one Italian tense
  17. 2026-11-03 17:54 · DEV Community — AI
    Weight-Space Programming Works: An LLM Fixed Qwen's Math Loop by Editing 0.016% of Its Weights
  18. 2026-11-03 14:30 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    GPT-6 Astra Edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's Weights. The MATH-500 Jump Was a Loop Fix
  19. 2026-11-03 14:16 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Hydrogen-1.0 MIT Open Weights: Gated BF16, NVFP4 262K Context Cliff, and Vendor FSR vs GPT-6 Astra
  20. 2026-11-03 12:38 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    What counts as feedback in weight-space programming?
  21. 2026-11-03 11:15 · DEV Community — AI
    Astra’s Weight‑Space Programming: A Practical Guide to Tuning Qwen
  22. 2026-11-03 09:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
    [Paper] Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
  23. 2026-11-03 05:35 · Analytics India Magazine
    MIT Researchers Show LLMs Can Read and Edit Neural Network Weights Without Retraining
  24. 2026-11-03 05:35 · Latent Space
    [AINews] LLMs can read & write neural network weights: "Weight Space Programming" cuts Autoresearch out of the RSI loop
  25. 2026-11-03 03:59 · r/LocalLLM
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (552B) on a used Dell R820 from 2012: 10 tok/s decode, 100 tok/s prefill
  26. 2026-11-03 02:19 · DEV Community — AI
    Kimi K3.1 Pro: 5,315 multilingual test results
  27. 2026-11-03 01:16 · DEV Community — AI
    Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed vs Pro: we measured the real speedup
  28. 2026-11-02 22:16 · VentureBeat AI
    'Like gene editing for neural networks': MIT researchers used GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen's open weights directly, boosting math performance
  29. 2026-11-02 21:36 · r/LocalLLM
    MIT researchers say GPT-6 Astra improved a small Qwen model’s math score from 7.9% to 48.1% by directly editing just 0.016% of its weights, without gradient-based training.
  30. 2026-11-02 21:25 · r/LocalLLaMA
    GPT-6 Astra Edits Qwen Weights: MATH-500 7.9% to 48.1%
  31. 2026-11-02 21:00 · Ethan Mollick (X)
    If this holds up, it is big: "We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math
  32. 2026-11-02 20:18 · r/singularity
    MIT researchers say GPT-6 Astra improved a small Qwen model’s math score from 7.9% to 48.1% by directly editing just 0.016% of its weights, without gradient-based training.
  33. 2026-11-02 20:18 · r/MachineLearning
    Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights [R]
  34. 2026-11-02 20:00 · Techmeme
    Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math (Rikiya Takehi)
  35. 2026-11-02 19:24 · Lobsters AI
    Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
  36. 2026-11-02 19:15 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
  37. 2026-11-02 18:45 · r/singularity
    Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
  38. 2026-11-02 15:57 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Unsloth vs GSQ-RCO - 512K context DeepSeek-V4.1 GGUF benchmarks Terminal Bench
  39. 2026-11-02 15:52 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Running UNCENSORED DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on a 12 Gb VRAM
  40. 2026-11-02 15:33 · r/LocalLLM
    Uncensored versions of ISTA's GSQ-RCO DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 quants for Strata, benchmarks inside
  41. 2026-11-02 15:11 · r/LocalLLM
    New DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Unsloth Dynamic V3.1 GGUFs!
  42. 2026-11-02 14:33 · r/LocalLLaMA
    [Release] ISTA DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 GSQ-RCO Coder: a 763B model at 1 bit per parameter
  43. 2026-11-02 05:37 · r/LocalLLM
    Getting incredible results with a single RTX 3090ti and 128gb of ram. Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (35 tok/s decode) and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (130 tok/s decode)

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