What's trending in AI right now, from the app charts to the community feeds. Real links, our take.
Everyone is suddenly searching for Kimi K3
"Kimi K3" is one of the trending AI searches on Google in the US this week, which is unusual for a model that has not fully shipped yet. K3 is the next flagship from Moonshot AI, the Chinese lab behind the Kimi models. TechCrunch reports it is expected in the coming days as an open-weight release with somewhere between 2 and 3 trillion parameters, which would make it the largest open-weight model out of China so far. Reddit is already full of benchmark screenshots claiming it matches the top closed models. Those come from previews and leaks, so treat them as rumors until the model is out and independently tested. Moonshot is also raising money at a $31.5 billion valuation, up from $20 billion in May, per the same TechCrunch report.
Google rebuilt Pelé's lost 1959 goal with AI
On August 2, 1959, Pelé scored a goal remembered as one of the most beautiful of his career, and no camera caught it. Google DeepMind worked with historians and Pelé's family to reconstruct it, gathering nearly 2,000 historical records, interviewing people who were in the stadium that day, and combining practical filmmaking with its Veo video model to generate the footage. The reconstruction is presented as a short documentary and now sits in the Pelé Museum in Santos. It was one of the most shared AI stories on the big AI Telegram channels this week, and if you like football at all, the film is worth your time.
A serious AI model that fits on a laptop is making the rounds
Another item getting big view counts on the AI channels is Bonsai 27B, an open model from Prism ML that has been compressed far enough to run on an ordinary laptop. The ternary version weighs about 5.9 GB, and the makers say the smallest build fits inside the memory an iPhone app is allowed to use. People care because this is a full 27 billion parameter model with tool use and a long context window, running offline on hardware you already own. If you have wanted an AI assistant that does not send your conversations to anyone's server, releases like this are the ones to watch.
AI note takers are climbing the productivity charts
Two AI note-taking apps are moving up the US App Store Productivity charts in our tracking this week. Plaud, the app behind the small wearable voice recorders, climbed five spots, and Summary is holding near the top of the category. Microsoft's Copilot apps are climbing right alongside them, with Microsoft 365 Copilot at No. 21 and the consumer Copilot app at No. 28 on the top free chart. Letting AI take the meeting notes looks like one of the most mainstream AI habits going right now.
People are pointing AI at their houses and gardens
The App Store's Graphics & Design chart has a domestic streak this week. House AI, which redesigns rooms from photos, climbed four spots in our tracking, AI Home Decor sits at No. 26 on the top free chart, and AI Garden Design is climbing too. The idea is the same across all of them: photograph your room or your yard, and the app shows you versions of what it could become. It is peak home improvement season, and the charts suggest plenty of remodeling ideas now start with an app.