AudioRAG is becoming real! Just built a demo with ColQwen-Omni that does semantic search on raw audio, no transcription needed.
Drop in a podcast, ask your question, and it finds the exact chunks where it happens. You can also get a written answer.
What’s exciting: it skips transcription, making it faster and better at capturing emotion, ambient sound, and tone, surfacing results text search would miss.
You might not have heard of Moonshot AI — but within 24 hours, their new model Kimi K2 shot to the top of Hugging Face’s trending leaderboard.
So… who are they, and why does it matter?
Had a lot of fun co-writing this blog post with @xianbao, with key insights translated from Chinese, to unpack how this startup built a model that outperforms GPT-4.1, Claude Opus, and DeepSeek V3 on several major benchmarks.
🧵 A few standout facts:
1. From zero to $3.3B in 18 months: Founded in March 2023, Moonshot is now backed by Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, and HongShan.
2. A CEO who thinks from the end: Yang Zhilin (31) previously worked at Meta AI, Google Brain, and Carnegie Mellon. His vision? Nothing less than AGI — still a rare ambition among Chinese AI labs.
3. A trillion-parameter model that’s surprisingly efficient: Kimi K2 uses a mixture-of-experts architecture (32B active params per inference) and dominates on coding/math benchmarks.
4. The secret weapon: Muon optimizer: A new training method that doubles efficiency, cuts memory in half, and ran 15.5T tokens with zero failures. Big implications.
Most importantly, their move from closed to open source signals a broader shift in China’s AI scene — following Baidu’s pivot. But as Yang puts it: “Users are the only real leaderboard.”
AI is reshaping everything—how we work, how we feel, even how nations compete.
Today’s reads cut across power, emotion, and disruption.
Here’s what stood out and why it matters 👇
AI might “solve” loneliness, but this could be a problem, as the discomfort of loneliness shapes us in important ways. 💔 https://t.co/k2Q9le6G0P
A new study warns of significant risks in using AI therapy chatbots, highlighting issues like stigmatization and inappropriate responses. 🤖 https://t.co/EFyW0RbYVl
AI is already showing signs of slashing job openings in the UK, particularly in roles exposed to the technology, suggesting a labor market slowdown. 📉 https://t.co/hhs0BbqIMa
Speaking of which: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang disagrees with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on whether AI will create more jobs—or trigger a “white-collar apocalypse.” Huang believes AI will create vastly more, and better, jobs. ⚔️ https://t.co/YHWhY7qvSq
Can Nvidia convince governments to pay for “sovereign AI”? Politicians are warming to the idea of national AI systems, but it might not reduce dependence on US tech. 🌍 https://t.co/htQDzJAIDu