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AI Dev Weekly is a Thursday series where I cover the week's most important AI developer news, with my take as someone who actually uses these tools daily. The flat-rate AI subscription era ended this week. Anthropic pulled Claude Code from the $20 Pr...

On January 26, an open-source model called Kimi K2.5 dropped. Within 24 hours, Reddit was losing its mind. People were calling it the "new DeepSeek moment". The claim? It beats Claude Opus 4.5 on agentic benchmarks. That's wild. Opus 4.5 costs money....

Choosing the right large-language model (LLM) has moved beyond “GPT-4o or bust.” In 2025, Kimi K2 (Moonshot AI) and Grok 4 (xAI) give developers two very different yet highly capable options: an open-source trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model...
