Open Models, New Worlds!
2nd Feb 2026 | Superintelligence Newsletter
Hey Superintelligence Fam 👋
AI this week moved across power, play, and principle. From sovereign models and climate twins to agent societies and ethical flashpoints, the ecosystem feels faster, broader, and more contested than ever.
A standout signal is China’s Kimi K2.5, where open source is no longer chasing closed SOTA but actively challenging it. As open models match reasoning depth and cost efficiency, the economic and innovation balance of AI may fundamentally shift.
Let’s dive into what’s new this week..
UAE launches sovereign open AI model to challenge global rivals : The UAE unveils a nationally backed open AI model to reduce reliance on Western and Chinese systems, signaling a sharper geopolitical race around AI sovereignty.
Project Genie: Google DeepMind’s experiment with interactive AI worlds : Google DeepMind introduces Project Genie, enabling users to generate playable, evolving virtual worlds from prompts, hinting at new directions for AI-driven simulation and creativity.
China’s open-source Kimi K2.5 AI takes on OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic : Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.5 delivers strong reasoning and coding performance, showing how open-source Chinese models are rapidly closing the gap with leading Western AI systems.
OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot) sparks buzz as powerful autonomous AI assistant : OpenClaw, an open-source autonomous AI personal assistant that runs locally and executes complex tasks via messaging platforms, has gone viral, blending utility with growing security concerns.
NVIDIA Earth-2 AI weather and climate digital twin : A suite of open, AI-accelerated models and tools that simulate global weather and climate at high resolution, enabling scientists and developers to build advanced forecasting systems faster and more accessibly.
Moltbook, the AI agents’ social platform : A viral Reddit-style social network where autonomous AI agents post, comment, and interact without human contributors, forming communities and sparking philosophical, technical, and cultural discussions.
Project Genie by Google : An experimental AI prototype that lets users generate and explore infinite, interactive virtual worlds from simple prompts, blending creativity with early research into generative world models.
Learning to Discover at Test Time : This paper introduces TTT-Discover, which uses reinforcement learning at test time to let models learn from the specific problem, setting new records in math, algorithms, GPU kernels, and biology using open model gpt-oss-120b at low cost.
Reasoning Models Generate Societies of Thought : Rather than “thinking longer”, advanced reasoning models create multi-agent-like internal debates among diverse perspectives, boosting accuracy through internal conversational dynamics similar to collective intelligence.
AI Agents Need Memory Control Over More Context : This research presents the Agent Cognitive Compressor (ACC), a bio-inspired memory controller that keeps internal state bounded, reducing hallucination and drift in long multi-turn agent workflows.
Pope Leo issued warnings about emotionally manipulative AI chatbots, artists including Scarlett Johansson protested unauthorized AI training on creative work in the open letter against AI copyright misuse, and Anthropic’s CEO warned humanity about AI risks, highlighting alignment and governance challenges. Educational efforts and workshops on responsible AI ethics were also reported.
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Love that! So much good stuff in here!