Kimi 3.1 Pro, Ollama 0.40.11, LiteLLM Key Rotation
Sunday, 25 October 2026 - AI News · (last 24h)
Kimi 3.1 Pro ships 104BA-2.8T open weights claiming Fable-5.1-class quality, narrowing the closed-source lead to roughly a month.
Must read
- Kimi 3.1 Pro 104BA-2.8T: Fable-5.1-class open weights — Open-weight model claiming frontier parity plus a 2-3× speed Pro API — direct candidate for your LiteLLM gateway routing.
- Ollama v0.40.11 — speech synthesis and d3 decision models — Native macOS TTS and vLLM Semantic Router decision models land in Ollama; relevant for Apple Silicon local stacks and agent routing.
- LiteLLM v1.106.3 rotates Docker image-signing key — You run LiteLLM as your model gateway — update cosign.pub pins in CI and admission policies now or deploys will fail.
Tools & Frameworks
LiteLLM v1.105.4
Rolling point release in the 1.105 line, shipped alongside the signing-key rotation affecting all images and Helm charts.
Why this matters: Stack directly in your deploy path.
LiteLLM v1.104.6
Patch release in the 1.104 branch carrying the new cosign signing key.
Why this matters: Pin update required if you’re not on 1.106 yet.
LiteLLM v1.103.8
Backport release on the 1.103 branch with the same cosign key rotation notice.
Why this matters: Relevant only if pinned to this line.
Open Models & Local
Raschka: Building Reasoning Models from the Ground Up
11+ hours of PyTorch video course covering evaluation, inference-time scaling, RL, and distillation for reasoning models.
Why this matters: Deep-dive reference for anyone picking local reasoning model stacks.
Sources unavailable today: Every — Chain of Thought (Dan Shipper), Last Week in AI, r/ChatGPTCoding top, r/ClaudeAI top, r/LocalLLaMA top, r/MachineLearning top
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