This week on The AI Hero Podcast: three stories reshaping the AI landscape. 29 nations launch a China-led global AI governance body in Shanghai, Moonshot AI drops the world's largest open-weights model at 2.8 trillion parameters, and Anthropic teams up with Blackstone to launch a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services firm.
Episode stories:
WAICO launches in Shanghai — 29 countries sign the founding agreement for the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, a China-led intergovernmental AI governance body conspicuously missing the US, EU, UK, Japan, and South Korea. UN Secretary-General Guterres attended. Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/twenty-nine-countries-sign-agreement-establish-global-ai-cooperation-body-2026-07-16/
Moonshot AI Kimi K3 — The world's largest open-weights model: 2.8 trillion parameters, MoE architecture, 1M context window, native vision. Full weights drop July 27. Early benchmarks rival top US frontier models. Source: https://venturebeat.com/technology/chinas-moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k3-the-largest-open-source-model-ever-rivaling-top-u-s-systems
Ode with Anthropic launches — Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman launch a $1.5 billion enterprise AI implementation firm. The bet: the next trillion-dollar opportunity is in deploying AI inside organizations, not just building the models. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/anthropic-blackstone-bet-the-next-trillion-dollar-ai-business-is-implementation-not-models/
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