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A $50 billion Chinese AI startup just released a model that beats GPT-6 Astra on coding benchmarks.
Most Americans have never heard its name.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro today October 24, 2026. It scored 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, the benchmark that tests coding agents on real-world tasks. GPT-6 Astra scored 58.2%. Claude Opus 5.5 scored 66.4%. Kimi K3.1 Pro sits between the two most powerful AI models on earth and costs a fraction of both.
$2 per million input tokens. $10 per million output tokens. Claude Opus 5.5 charges $15/$75. GPT-6 Astra charges more. Kimi is 7-8x cheaper on input and 7.5x cheaper on output.
The model is built on Kimi K3 the largest open-weight model ever released at 2.8 trillion parameters. Full model weights for K3.1 Pro will be open-sourced by November 4.
Bloomberg called it “Moonshot’s first major upgrade since its own DeepSeek moment.”
And most people in the West have never typed “kimi.ai” into a browser.
Here’s everything about the AI model the US tech giants don’t want you to discover 🧵
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A woman who runs a sourcing company in Shenzhen told me she places over $8 million a year in factory orders for American brands.
Most of those brands could do it themselves.
The ceramic mugs a home-goods brand sells for $28 come from a factory she found on Alibaba. The silicone kitchen tools a cooking influencer sells as “her own line” come from a factory she found on Alibaba. The packing cubes a travel brand sells for $40 a set come from a factory she found on Alibaba.
She doesn’t own a factory. She doesn’t have secret contacts. She doesn’t use any software the public can’t access. She uses the same Alibaba.com that anyone can open in a browser tonight. She just uses the parts of it most people never click on.
Her fee: 5–10% of every order.
She told me something most small business owners have never considered:
“Brands pay me because they think sourcing requires connections. It doesn’t. Alibaba already gives every buyer the tools I use an AI sourcing assistant, image search, bulk quote requests, supplier filters, escrow payments, and inspection services. Most people type a product name into the search bar, scroll through 3 pages, message the cheapest listing, and wonder why it went wrong. That’s like walking into a library and only reading the covers.”
She said the difference between a buyer who gets burned on Alibaba and a buyer who builds a business on it isn’t luck, budget, or language. It’s knowing which tools exist.
“Alibaba changed a lot in the last 2 years. The search bar isn’t just a search bar anymore. The platform will now shortlist suppliers for you, send quote requests to a dozen factories at once, and compare their answers. The people still sourcing the way they did in 2020 are doing 10x the work for worse results.”
She showed me 9 Alibaba tools most buyers never use and the exact order she uses them in to go from “product idea” to “boxes at my door.”
Here’s the full playbook:🧵
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A woman spent $2,800 on Kindle books over 6 years.
She read about 40 books a year. Paid $10–15 each. Every time a new release came out, she tapped “Buy now with 1-Click” without thinking twice.
Her friend, a public librarian with 11 years behind the desk, sat next to her on the bus and watched her buy another one.
“You know you can get most of those for free, right? On the same Kindle. Legally. Same screen, same font, same everything. Your library card works with an app called Libby. You’ve been paying retail for books your taxes already bought for you.”
She said most people think the public library is a building with old paperbacks and a printer that doesn’t work. They have no idea it’s one of the biggest free digital lending systems in the world.
“Libraries spend millions every year licensing ebooks and audiobooks. Bestsellers. New releases. Self-help, thrillers, romance, business books. And most of those copies sit there unborrowed while people pay Amazon $14.99 for the same title. We’re not hiding it. We just don’t have a marketing budget.”
She said the Kindle itself has the same problem. Most owners use it as a page-turner and nothing else.
“Your Kindle can tell you who a character is when you forget. It saves every word you look up and turns them into flashcards. It can take a 40-page PDF from your email and make it readable. People own a $150 reading machine and use about 10% of it.”
She got a library card that weekend. She hasn’t paid for a book in 8 months.
Here are the 9 things her librarian friend showed her:🧵
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A man paid $398 for AppleCare+ across two iPhones and never filed a single claim.
He bought the first plan for $199 at the counter, sold that phone 14 months later without cancelling the plan, and then paid another $199 at checkout for the replacement. Both times it took under a minute, because the person behind the register asked “Do you want to protect it?” and saying no felt reckless.
Then a friend who spent eight years working at an Apple Store watched him get ready to do it again on his new iPhone Duo, which went on sale Friday.
“AppleCare+ isn’t a scam, and it isn’t a must-buy either. It’s an insurance policy with a price, a deductible, a claim limit, and a cancellation policy, and almost nobody reads any of them. People either buy it out of fear at the counter or skip it out of pride, and both can cost real money. The people who come out ahead do arithmetic first: what does the plan cost, what would a repair cost without it, and what will I realistically need?”
“Apple changed a lot this year. A foldable now exists with an inner screen repair that costs $999 without coverage, AppleCare One now has a family tier, and theft and loss coverage reaches iPad and Apple Watch. Most owners are still buying the same way they did five years ago.”
He walked him through 9 things over one dinner. The man cancelled the leftover coverage on his old phone, skipped the monthly plan for the cheaper way to pay, and bought the coverage for his Duo on purpose instead of by reflex. That one change on the new phone saved him about $80 over two years.
“The best AppleCare+ decision isn’t yes or no. It’s making the decision with the numbers in front of you.”
Here are the 9 things the Apple Store veteran told him about AppleCare+ 🧵
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A $50 billion Chinese AI startup just released a model that beats GPT-6 Astra on coding benchmarks.
Most Americans have never heard its name.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro today October 24, 2026. It scored 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, the benchmark that tests coding agents on real-world tasks. GPT-6 Astra scored 58.2%. Claude Opus 5.5 scored 66.4%. Kimi K3.1 Pro sits between the two most powerful AI models on earth and costs a fraction of both.
$2 per million input tokens. $10 per million output tokens. Claude Opus 5.5 charges $15/$75. GPT-6 Astra charges more. Kimi is 7-8x cheaper on input and 7.5x cheaper on output.
The model is built on Kimi K3 the largest open-weight model ever released at 2.8 trillion parameters. Full model weights for K3.1 Pro will be open-sourced by November 4.
Bloomberg called it “Moonshot’s first major upgrade since its own DeepSeek moment.”
And most people in the West have never typed “kimi.ai” into a browser.
Here’s everything about the AI model the US tech giants don’t want you to discover 🧵
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Amazon Prime costs $139/year.
Most members think free shipping is how they justify the fee. It’s not.
Two hidden benefits that most members have never activated pay for the entire membership before a single package ships. Grubhub+: $120/year in free food delivery, included with Prime, unclaimed by most members. Fuel savings: $78/year in gas discounts at 7,500+ gas stations, unlinked by most members. $120 + $78 = $198. The $139 membership is paid for with $59 to spare before the member orders a single item on Amazon.
And those are 2 of 11 hidden benefits most Prime members have never activated.
A consumer savings analyst who’s tracked Amazon’s pricing and benefits infrastructure for 6 years told her friend something after watching him complain about the $139 annual fee that changed how he uses Prime permanently.
“Most Prime members justify the fee with shipping. The fee was already justified by two benefits they’ve never turned on. The shipping is the bonus. The savings system is the membership. Amazon bundles $2,000+ in annual value into a $139 membership free food delivery, unlimited photo storage, fuel discounts, $5 prescription plans, free gaming, free books, 15% off household essentials, 5% cash back, a hidden clearance outlet, and a second adult membership for $0. Most members use free shipping and nothing else. They’re paying $139 for a $2,000+ membership and using $80 of it.”
She showed him 11 Amazon Prime features that transform the $139 membership from “free 2-day delivery” into the most comprehensive savings system most members have never configured.
Here’s every hidden Amazon Prime feature most members miss 🧵
The uncomfortable truth:
The most powerful open-weight AI model on earth was built by a 300-person startup in Beijing. It beats GPT-6 Astra on coding. It leads every model on financial document analysis. It generates downloadable 3D models from text. It reduced hallucinations by 65%. And it costs $2 per million input tokens while US competitors charge $15.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 in July. Fortune said it pushed Chinese AI into Fable-level territory. Bloomberg called today’s K3.1 Pro release “Moonshot’s first major upgrade since its own DeepSeek moment.”
Three Chinese labs DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Qwen have now released frontier-class models in 2026 that compete with or beat US models on key benchmarks at 5-30x lower cost. All three are open-weight or partially open. All three are accessible globally.
The AI race isn’t one country versus another. It’s open versus closed. Cheap versus expensive. Accessible versus gated.
K3.1 Pro is all three: open (weights November 4), cheap ($2/$10), and accessible (kimi.ai, free tier).
“The model that matches Claude Opus 5.5 on coding, beats GPT-6 Astra by 7.5 points, and leads every competitor on financial research releases its full weights in 11 days. For free. Downloadable. Self-hostable. Fine-tunable. The $50 billion startup in Beijing just made the most capable open-weight model in the world available to every developer, every researcher, and every startup on earth. The question isn’t whether Chinese AI caught up. It did. The question is what happens when the most capable models are also the cheapest and the most open and they come from a company most Americans can’t name.”
Kimi K3.1 Pro. Released today. $2 per million tokens. Open weights November 4.
The frontier just got cheaper. And more open. And harder to ignore.
If this introduces you to the AI model most Americans have never heard of or reveals that a $2/million-token model beats GPT-6 on coding one ask:
Repost the first post so the next developer paying $15/million tokens for Claude sees the $2 alternative that scores within 0.7 percentage points on the same benchmark.
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Go to kimi.ai right now. Create a free account. Ask it to write code. Ask it to analyze a financial document. Ask it to create a 3D model. The model that matches Claude and beats GPT-6 is free to try. Right now. While most people don’t know it exists.
November 4: the weights drop. The model becomes yours. Permanently.
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MIT is quietly giving away its entire education for free.
Not a sample. Not a teaser. Not a “first 3 lessons free, then pay $499.”
2,500+ courses. Full lecture videos. Problem sets with solutions. Exams with answer keys. Syllabi. Reading lists. Textbooks. From undergraduate introductions to PhD-level research in computer science, physics, mathematics, engineering, economics, biology, business, and 30+ departments.
The same material MIT students pay $65,000/year to access published online, for anyone, forever, for $0.
MIT OpenCourseWare has impacted over 500 million people worldwide. MIT’s YouTube channel is the largest .edu channel on the platform with 6+ million subscribers. And most people have never heard of it.
A self-taught developer who went from warehouse worker to software engineer at a Fortune 500 company without a college degree told me: “I found MIT resources by chance. It’s one of the biggest things that has happened to me. I learned algorithms, data structures, and machine learning from the same lectures MIT students watch for free. The same problem sets. The same exams. The same professors. No application. No tuition. No rejection letter. Just: open the browser, pick a course, press play.”
Here are 9 free MIT resources most people don’t know exist and how to use them to learn anything from the world’s #1 university without paying a dollar 🧵