Moonshot
Moonshot is a Chinese AI company that released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal model with a 1-million-token context window in 2025. The model ranks highly on benchmarks, offers competitive pricing at $3.00 per million input tokens, and uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture for improved scaling efficiency. Moonshot's release has drawn scrutiny from U.S. officials who alleged the company obtained restricted hardware and improperly distilled American models, though researchers have questioned whether distillation alone could account for the model's capabilities.
Updated 3 August 2026
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Latest developments
Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
Interconnects · 23 hours ago ·
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The Sequence Radar #906: Last Week in AI: Open Models, Intelligent Robots, and the Price of Conviction
TheSequence · 1 day ago ·
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Kimi K3 Redraws the Open Frontier, Muse Spark 1.1 Undercuts Competitors, Cloudflare Moves to Cut Off Crawlers
The Batch ·
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Moonshot Releases Kimi K3 Model Weights on Hugging Face
The Neuron · 6 days ago ·
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🔮 Copy that: The curious case of AI distillation #594
Exponential View · 1 week ago ·
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Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta and 22 others defended open weights. Anthropic and OpenAI didn’t sign.
The New Stack · 1 week ago ·
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Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 465
Deep Learning Weekly · 1 week ago ·
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‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
TechCrunch AI · 1 week ago ·
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August 2026
- Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
- The Sequence Radar #906: Last Week in AI: Open Models, Intelligent Robots, and the Price of Conviction
July 2026
Multiple AI companies release competitive open-weight models as industry trend shifts toward openness Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open model with 2.8 trillion parameters and 1-million-token context window Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model competing with frontier American systems Model release
- Kimi K3 Redraws the Open Frontier, Muse Spark 1.1 Undercuts Competitors, Cloudflare Moves to Cut Off Crawlers
- Moonshot Releases Kimi K3 Model Weights on Hugging Face
- 🔮 Copy that: The curious case of AI distillation #594
- Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta and 22 others defended open weights. Anthropic and OpenAI didn’t sign.
- Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 465
- ‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
- Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
- Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
- Kimi K3: White House alleges Fable 5 siphoning
- “Second only to Fable 5:” Alibaba talks the talk with Qwen3.8 without providing any real data
- America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI
- 7 Consequences of America Finally Losing Its AI Edge to China
- OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?
- China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself
- Moonshot is Chinese But Its AI Models Are From Another Planet
- [AINews] not much happened today
- Moonshot's Kimi K3 Open Model Released
February 2026
Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops Kimi K3 · 16 sources
- Derived from Fable 5 · 1 source
- Integrated with Claude · 1 source
- Derived from Fable · 1 source
- Deploys Hugging Face · 1 source
- Develops Kimi · 1 source
- Develops Kimi K2.5 · 1 source
Investment & ownership
- Alibaba invests in this company · 1 source