Kimi K3 Shakes Up Coding Models

**Brian** (0:00)
Hey, what's going on, everybody? Happy Friday, it's July 17th, 2026 And this is The Daily AI Show live, which means we are live right now. It's 10 a.m. on East Coast, 7 a.m. over where Andy is.
And we're here to bring you into the weekend, land this plane at the end of another solid AI week with all sorts of AI news and different stories going on. If you haven't gotten a chance, go back and check out some of our other episodes this week. And of course, going into the weekend, it's always important that you know that we have the Conundrum episode coming out tomorrow. Now, I'll tell you the Conundrum episode. I was saying yesterday, I was like, oh, I'm not sure what the Conundrum is gonna be this week. I was a little late to getting it. But because we had talked to Andy yesterday about the new Neo robotics hand, which I tell you Andy, like in doing the prep for the Conundrum, that hand is bonkers. I don't have a better word for it. It is so impressive. And when you read the notes, I mean, we kind of hit on it yesterday. You talked about it and we showed some videos. But when you really look at like how they rethought AI robotics and human eye robots as the hand being the first sensory input with pressure and everything else, referring back to how a human would pick up this bottle and whether I'm thinking about it or not. I'm thinking about it being hard and how hard I have to grip it and all the sensory things. And so that hands in the past on robots obviously were not read right and that this new Neo hand is read right, which makes a big difference when it can push data in two different ways. Say that got me just thinking about like, wow, this is a moment. I feel like it's a bigger moment than I think what we gave it maybe credence to yesterday. We're like, oh, there's like a really cool hand. It could be watched. I think it's bigger than that. Honestly, I think it's like a big, big moment in terms of AI robotics. I could be wrong on that. So what the whole reason I bring that up is that for the Conundrum episode, for anybody listening tomorrow, it is going to be about elder care, which Beth has joined us. Gareth has joined us. Beth, I always think about you because you've told us many stories and shared kindly about your stories taking care of your mom through the years and stuff like that. And so I think about these things and I go, is this a difference maker for Beth? Past Beth, right? Like, is this a different maker for the millions of people who are in this sort of age gap? Or, you know, look, a lot of us are in this area of there's full time jobs, there's a lot of cases in my case, there's then people who need help or need assistance, whether that's like where your mom was towards the end with Alzheimer's, but also just people who need general assistance because they need a place to be and they need somebody watching them. And so I had this thought of like, is this really going to change? Is this fundamentally the leapfrog step that's going to change a Neo in a house? Now, I don't know about what the new hand did, but like a Neo robot, there's many out there, there's there, we know all the other brands and the optimist and blah, blah, blah. But that one's supposed to be around 20,000. Let's say because of this new technology, and this bumps up to 30,000. That's still, in most cases, significantly less than a brand new car. I'm not suggesting everybody has the money for a brand new car, but it puts it in a price point where families are gonna start to be able to say, I could put this in at $200, $300 a month, $400 a month, and that's considerably less than maybe actual having in-house care.
And so anyway, that's where my brain went with the conundrum, the conundrum not to get onto it, you can go listen tomorrow. It's about the future of family care for other family members. It doesn't necessarily have to be elderly, just other family members that need assistance. And does this change things? And how will it change things? Because Beth, you've told us all the stories. I was thinking about you a lot yesterday, Beth.
I was doing a conundrum. But you've told us stories about all, you know, I don't wanna put words in your mouth, but you talked about having that time with your mom, even as she was going through the different stages of dementia and, you know, maybe being able to put on a scarf as you've told us lately and walking out of the room and being able to come back in as somebody else because she was bad, the last person for the meds or the IV or whatever. And I thought about that and I thought, oh, does this change our thought process on across cultures about what it means to provide care? And the one side of the conundrum is obviously just as a starting point is, you know, does reading a cold app of what the robot is doing for your parents or whatever the case is, does that give a sense of things are good?