AI Industry News: Model Releases and Executive Moves
Original title: [AINews] It's Swapping Season
Moonshot, Ricursive, Cognition release new open-weight AI models while several executives switch between companies.
Multiple developments in AI: Cat Wu joins OpenAI, Sharon Zhou joins Anthropic, Factory acquires HumanLayer, Meta acquires Conductor. OpenAI releases autonomous cyber pipeline that found 948 Linux LPE bugs. New open models like Kimi K3.1 Pro, Ripple-65B, SWE-2 Flash, Hy4.
- OpenAI pipeline validated 948 LPE vulnerabilities for $1.2M
- Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro with 2.8T parameters
- Ricursive released 65B model scoring 80.5% on Terminal-Bench
- Cognition's SWE-2 Flash outperforms larger open models
- Several executive changes including Cat Wu to OpenAI and Sharon Zhou to Anthropic
From the original article
14 min read at latent.spaceNovember 4, 2026 — OpenAI’s Linux kernel security work, Kimi K3. 1 Pro’s open weights, and Ricursive’s Ripple-65B.
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