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Kimi.ai apologized for the rate limiting and unnecessary quota consumption issues with the K3.1 Pro subscription plan, saying it was its own problem and that it should have fixed it earlier. The company implemented a one-time usage reset for all subscribers: restoring 25% of the monthly quota, or zeroing it out if usage was below 25%, equivalent to one week's usage, with the usage bar to be updated before the end of the day PST. Kimi also adjusted the plan's parameters, reducing unnecessary subagent calls and output length to make the quota more durable. A subsequent report by Huxiu said that Moonshot AI apologized for the rate limiting and abnormal quota consumption after the launch of K3.1 Pro, and compensated subscribers with valid memberships with 25% of their total monthly usage; the model was released on October 24, and some users on the 199 yuan tier reported that installing just one Skill consumed 70% of the five-hour limit.
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Oct 28
Huxiu
As Anthropic Races Toward IPO, Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance Reportedly Plan to Buy Over 3 Million Nvidia GPUs
Reuters reports that ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent's order demand for Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 totals more than 3 million units; at an estimated price of about $11,400 each, the scale exceeds $35 billion, mainly for AI inference. The article also mentions that after Kimi K3.1 Pro launched, quota was consumed too quickly, Moonshot AI apologized and compensated 25% of quota, and Anthropic has submitted an IPO application. The author points out that the $35 billion is a purchasing intention rather than confirmed revenue; amortized over five years, that is about $7 billion per year in equipment costs, on top of server, power, and operations and maintenance expenses.
Oct 27
36Kr · AI
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra with a 50% price cut—can Chinese large models still hold onto their low prices?
On October 27 Beijing time, OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, with standard API pricing at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, 50% lower than the previous generation GPT-5.6 Terra, while complex task execution, factual accuracy, and coding capabilities all improved. The article compares the pricing of Kimi K3.1 Pro at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, pointing out that domestic models rely on MoE architecture and engineering efficiency to keep the cost structure low, but total compute supply remains a hard boundary; Kimi K3.1 Pro saw rate limiting and quota anomalies within less than 48 hours of launch. The author argues that the room for domestic models to respond lies in B2B scenarios, data compliance, localized deployment, and government-enterprise channels.
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Anthropic Publicly Files IPO Application, Listing as Early as Mid-November
Anthropic publicly filed its IPO registration statement with the SEC on October 26 local time, planning to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol ANT, with sources saying a listing could come as early as November 16. The prospectus shows that Anthropic's revenue in the first half of 2026 was $16.29 billion, with a net loss of $80.75 billion, of which about $72.4 billion came from fair value changes in financial instruments such as convertible bonds; adjusted operating profit for the same period was about $1.6 billion. The company expects to commit at least $518 billion in spending on cloud services, computing power, and infrastructure over the next decade, of which about 80% is non-cancelable or payable regardless of actual usage.
36Kr · AI
Anthropic proposes folding sub-agents back into the main loop, responding to the controversy over Kimi K3.1 Pro quota consumption
Anthropic published the article "Building Agents: When to Fold Sub-Agents Back into the Main Loop," stating that a single agent with skills often outperforms multiple sub-agents dividing labor in quality, cost, and latency, with far lower token consumption than the latter, and open-sourced the single-agent-loop-kit tool. The article notes that multi-agent systems consume about 15 times the tokens of ordinary conversations, and converting sub-agents into Skills can cut over 80% of system prompts. After Moonshot AI's K3.1 Pro launched on October 24, multiple users reported excessively fast quota consumption, and the company said in the early hours of October 26 that it would reduce unnecessary sub-agent calls and output length.
36Kr · AI
After the Release of Kimi K3.1 Pro: A $50 Billion Valuation and an Apology Letter to Users Over Quotas
Kimi released K3.1 Pro, scoring 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index—fourth globally and first among open-source models—and 67% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, surpassing GPT-6 Astra's 58.2%. Within 48 hours of launch, Kimi apologized for rate limiting and "unnecessary quota consumption," refunding 25% of monthly quotas. Running the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index test suite, K3.1 Pro outputs about 55 million tokens, 14% more than K3 and roughly 2.5 times that of GPT-6 Astra.
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Kimi K3.1 Pro quota depletes too quickly; Anthropic argues for folding sub-agents back into the main loop
After the launch of Moonshot AI's K3.1 Pro, multiple users reported that quotas were being consumed too quickly. The company apologized in the early hours of October 26 and compensated users with quota, while stating it would reduce unnecessary sub-agent calls and output length. The article cites Anthropic's piece "Building Agents: When to Fold Sub-Agents Back into the Main Loop," stating that token consumption in multi-agent systems is about 15 times that of ordinary conversations, and that converting sub-agents into Skills on demand can cut over 80% of system prompts. Anthropic has also open-sourced the single-agent-loop-kit tool, enabling models to execute tasks in a single-agent form only.
Huxiu
Kimi K3.1 Pro Apologizes Within 48 Hours of Launch and Compensates Members with 25% Quota
Moonshot AI apologized for rate limiting and abnormal quota consumption after the launch of Kimi K3.1 Pro, compensating subscribed members within the validity period with 25% of their total monthly usage, and resetting to 0 for those who have used less than 25%. The model was released on October 24 and is a 3-trillion-parameter-class open-source model, with API pricing at one-fifth that of comparable flagship models. Some users on the 199 yuan tier reported that merely installing one Skill consumed 70% of the 5-hour limit.
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Kimi K3.1 Pro Apologizes 48 Hours After Launch, Compensates Subscribers with 25% Usage
Moonshot AI has apologized for the rate limiting and abnormal quota consumption encountered by subscribers after the launch of Kimi K3.1 Pro, and will provide subscribers within the validity period with a usage compensation of 25% of their monthly total; accounts with less than 25% quota remaining will be reset directly to 0. Some users on the 199 yuan tier said that merely installing one Skill consumed 70% of the 5-hour rolling limit, and the company simultaneously lowered its API per-token pricing. The full weights of K3.1 Pro will be released before November 4; until then, rate-limiting measures will continue.
Oct 26
IT Home · Artificial Intelligence
Kimi apologizes for K3.1 Pro rate limiting and quota consumption issues, resets and compensates all subscription members with 25% of monthly quota
Kimi apologizes for the rate limiting and unnecessary quota consumption that members recently encountered when using K3.1 Pro. For all subscription members within their validity period across all tiers, it has reset their quotas and granted compensation equal to 25% of the monthly total (about one week's usage); if the current usage is less than 25% of the monthly total, the quota is reset to 0. Kimi has also adjusted its configuration and is reducing unnecessary sub-Agent calls and output length, so that the same quota can accomplish more actual tasks. K3.1 Pro is a 3-trillion-parameter model launched by Moonshot AI on October 24, supporting a 1-million-token context.
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Kimi Apologizes for K3.1 Pro Pricing and Rate-Limiting Controversy, Downgrades Chatty Sub-Agents and Gives Paid Users a 25% Monthly Quota Reset
Kimi AI has apologized for the K3.1 Pro pricing controversy and aggressive rate limiting. To fix the issues, Kimi is downgrading chatty sub-agents to prevent them from consuming quota due to excessive output, while providing paid users with a 25% monthly quota reset.
36Kr · AI
Kimi K3.1 Pro Apologizes for Quota Consumption, Compared with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's Product Roadmap
Less than 48 hours after Kimi K3.1 Pro was released, Moonshot AI apologized for rate limiting and unexplained quota drain, announcing that starting October 26, subscribers at all tiers would receive a refund of 25% of their monthly total, and that unnecessary sub-Agent calls would be cut and redundant output compressed. Artificial Analysis tests show that K3.1 Pro needs to output about 150 million tokens to run the full Intelligence Index, versus a median of 87 million at the same price point, with a per-task cost of $2.11. The article compares it with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017, released the previous week, arguing that the latter follows a Pareto-improvement approach, shortening output and lowering costs while improving performance.
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Kimi K3.1 Pro apologizes for quota consumption, contrasting with DeepSeek's token-saving approach
Less than 48 hours after the release of Kimi K3.1 Pro, Moonshot AI apologized for rate limiting and unexplained quota drain, announcing that starting October 26, subscribers at all tiers will receive a refund of 25% of their monthly total, and that unnecessary sub-Agent calls will be cut and redundant output length compressed. Artificial Analysis tests show that running the full Intelligence Index on K3.1 Pro requires outputting about 150 million tokens, versus a median of 87 million for models at the same price point, with a cost of $2.11 per task, even though its token price is only one-fifth that of GPT-6 Astra. The article compares DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017, which uses a Pareto-improvement approach to simultaneously raise scores, speed up tasks, and shorten output, and argues that Yang Zhilin needs to allocate resources more restrainedly in Agent products.
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Kimi Apologizes and Compensates for K3.1 Pro Rate Limiting and Quota Issues
Kimi apologizes for the rate limiting and unnecessary quota consumption of the K3.1 Pro subscription plan, stating that this was its own problem and should have been fixed earlier. All subscribers receive a one-time usage reset, restoring 25% of the monthly quota (reset to zero if usage is below 25%), equivalent to one week's usage, and the usage bar will be updated before the end of the day PST. Kimi has also adjusted the plan's parameters to reduce unnecessary subagent calls and output length, making the quota more durable.
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