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Announcement

Kimi K3, live on PrivateMind

Kimi K3 is now serving on PrivateMind behind the same gateway and audit trail as everything else we run. What it took to productionise, and what the first few hours looked like.

Ryan Ballantine 1 min read
Field Notes

Hugging Face and the trust problem

What a supply-chain incident at a model host says about where your weights live and who can reach them.

Ryan Ballantine 4 min read
Field Notes

Kimi K3 and the open-weight frontier

Moonshot AI released a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that trades blows with the closed frontier. The gap is closing in steps, and the steps are getting larger.

Ryan Ballantine 3 min read
Engineering

Inside the gateway: why one choke point

One process sees every prompt, every token and every key. Why we built it that way, and what it buys us.

Ryan Ballantine 3 min read
Field Notes

GLM-5.2 and the open source frontier

GLM-5.2 lands within a point of the frontier on long-horizon coding. What it means for the open-source race, and the three things it unlocks: cost, performance, sovereignty.

Ryan Ballantine 1 min read
Field Notes

Sovereign by default

Sovereignty is not a deployment option you bolt on later. It is a property of where the weights sit and who can reach them.

Ryan Ballantine 3 min read
Announcement

Private AI, in the open

We run AI nobody else gets to see into, and we write down how we build it where everyone can. Why this blog exists, and what it will and won't be.

Ryan Ballantine 2 min read