not much happened today

**Chinese labs** have released a wave of powerful, permissively licensed models in July, including **Zhipu AI's GLM-4.5** and **GLM-4.5-Air**, **Alibaba's Qwen3 Coder** and **Qwen3-235B**, and **Moonshot AI's Kimi K2**. These models feature large-scale Mixture of Experts architectures with active parameters ranging from 3B to 32B and context windows up to 256K tokens. **Zhipu AI's GLM-4.5** competes with **Claude 4 Opus** and **Gemini 2.5 Pro** in benchmarks. **Moonshot AI's Kimi K2** is a 1 trillion-parameter MoE model surpassing other open-weight models on **LiveCodeBench** and **AceBench**. In video and image generation, **xAI** launched **Grok Imagine**, and **Wan2.2** impressed with its Image-to-Video approach. **Ideogram** released a character consistency model. Robotics advances include **Figure's Figure-01 and Figure-02** humanoid robots and **ViTPose++** for pose estimation in basketball analysis. The **SmolLM3** training and evaluation code was fully released under an Apache 2.0 license. *"Orgs avoiding these Chinese open-source models are at a significant competitive disadvantage,"* noted by @corbtt.