AI weekly roundup — Pocket TTS, Hermes Skills Hub, Kimi K3 in pure C

China just dropped the world's most advanced open-source AI model, while this new tool lets you run a 2 trillion parameter model on a laptop with 8 gigs of RAM and no GPU. And that's not all. Here's everything that happened in AI this week in 60 seconds. At number 6, Qtai launches Pocket TTS, a 100 million parameter voice model that can clone your voice free on your own computer, 6 times faster than real time, and to set up is literally one command. Number 5. Google Search releases Hermes Skills Hub. Over 90,000 free community skills for your AI agent to work across 200 categories, from OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, and more, installable straight into your agent. Number 4. XAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 You can now point at any region and change only that, plus background removal, 5 reference images at once, and smart resize. It's now number 2 in the world for image editing. Number 3. It runs in your terminal, keeps background agents alive across the whole session, and works your repo in parallel work trees so your files are never touched. Number 2. Alibaba drops Quen 3.8 Max 2.4 trillion parameters, only 95 billion active, a 1 million token context window, native video and image understanding. And it's the highest ranked Chinese model in the world. And at number 1. Come on, just open source Kimi K3 and see, a 176 kilobyte Pure C99 engine that streams Kimi K3's experts off your disk instead of loading them into memory letting you run a 2 trillion parameter model with no GPU…