AK Adib Kadir

Field notes on enterprise AI
and the engineering factory

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Interesting models

Open source and open weight models worth watching for enterprise use.

  1. 01 engineering-factory / ai-for-employees Kimi K3 changes your leverage, not your stack The first open 3T-class model is here. Almost no enterprise will ever host it, and that is not where the value is.
  2. 02 tool-brief / engineering-factory MiniMax M3: judge it by the 24 hour run MiniMax's new flagship pairs a 1M token context with the metric that matters for agentic delivery: how long it stays coherent without a human.
  3. 03 tool-brief / open-models GLM-5.2 and the open-weights step change for enterprise agents Z.ai's MIT-licensed flagship claims near-frontier agentic coding with a usable 1M-token context. The enterprise story is what this does to cost and data residency.
  4. 04 tool-brief / video-generation Seedance 2.5 and what native 30-second video does to media cost structures ByteDance's new video model generates 30-second 4K clips in one pass with up to 50 reference inputs. That is aimed at the most expensive line items in a media P&L.