Kimi Opens Its Weights as Voters Put Brakes on AI Buildouts
Thursday, November 5, 2026 · 9 min
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro’s weights on Hugging Face, giving builders access to its million-token-context model. Meanwhile, voters approved dozens of data-center restrictions, raising new obstacles for the infrastructure behind AI deployment.
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Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro’s weights on Hugging Face, giving builders access to its million-token-context model. Meanwhile, voters approved dozens of data-center restrictions, raising new obstacles for the infrastructure behind AI deployment.
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- Kimi K3.1 Pro opens its weights · FAV0 · AI Daily — FAV0
“Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro weights on Hugging Face. Its model card describes a 3T-scale native multimodal agent model with a million-token context, post-trained from Kimi K3 through large-scale joint reinforcement learning. Moonshot reports gains in coding, 3D creation…”
- Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech” — Ars Technica
“Donald Trump’s big, rapid American AI buildout now faces a major slowdown as voters in yesterday’s elections overwhelmingly supported candidates and measures that favored increasing restrictions on AI and data centers nationwide. One resource from a polling firm, called Redbud…”
“Big tech supported him massively in 2024, for his views on regulation and bribery. There's no downside to accepting PAC money or bribes, except as we saw Tuesday. It got radioactive. Downside showed up. Average people ALWAYS pay the price, and the price of environmental damage,…” — Hacker News (5 pts thread)
Our take: We think the strongest point is that residents can’t opt out of water demand or electricity costs by canceling a subscription. Ashley Belanger’s reporting for Ars Technica puts concrete votes behind that frustration; calling it merely anti-Trump doesn’t answer what communities get in return.
- New York bars AI chatbots from posing as kids' friends, with fines up to $25,000 per violation — The Cool Down
“The age-verification requirements and restrictions in the measure signed by Governor Kathy Hochul aim to protect children from harmful chatbot interactions. The law requires AI companies to conduct age checks and applies child-safety restrictions to anyone under 18, according…”
- AMD, Nvidia Could Gain Another US Source For HBM Parts, Says Report — Stocktwits
“Samsung Electronics is reportedly gearing up to make memory chip components for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Nvidia (NVDA) at its second chip plant in Texas. The plant has secured orders for all planned output, and most of that volume is for AMD, Reuters reported, citing…”