Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI is a Chinese AI company that released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weights model with a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture, on July 27, 2026. The model features a 1 million token context window, achieves 2.5x scaling efficiency improvements over its predecessor, and is available through multiple deployment options including Together AI's API and AWS infrastructure. Moonshot has also open-sourced supporting infrastructure including MoonEP for distributed MoE training and AgentENV for agentic reinforcement learning training.
Updated 3 August 2026
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Jul 2025 → Aug 2026
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Latest developments
Sakana AI Launches Sakana Namazu, a Japanese-Specialized LLM API
Sakana AI ·
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LWiAI Podcast #253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack
Last Week in AI · 7 hours ago ·
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China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
The Verge · 10 hours ago ·
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Kimi K3: The Complete Developer Guide
Together AI · 2 days ago ·
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Deploying Kimi K3 on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EKS
AWS Machine Learning · 4 days ago ·
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Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
AWS Machine Learning · 4 days ago ·
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With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook
Rest of World · 4 days ago ·
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Moonshot AI Open-Sources MoonEP: A Perfectly Balanced Expert Parallelism Library for MoE Training
MarkTechPost · 4 days ago ·
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August 2026
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal AI model Model release
- Sakana AI Launches Sakana Namazu, a Japanese-Specialized LLM API
- LWiAI Podcast #253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack
- China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
- Kimi K3: The Complete Developer Guide
July 2026
Major surge in open-weight AI model releases including Moonshot's Kimi K3, with industry figures defending open models as essential to competitiveness 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 with API pricing and delayed weights availability Model release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model competing with frontier American systems Model release
- Deploying Kimi K3 on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EKS
- Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
- With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook
- Moonshot AI Open-Sources MoonEP: A Perfectly Balanced Expert Parallelism Library for MoE Training
- Together AI announces strategic partnership with Moonshot AI to natively serve Kimi models
- Building Non-Interactive Agentic Coding Workflows with Moonshot AI’s Kimi CLI, JSONL Streaming, Testing, and Session Memory
- [AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
- moonshotai/Kimi-K3
- Kimi AI and kvcache-ai Open Sources ‘AgentENV’: A Distributed System that Powers Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training for Kimi K3
- Moonshot opens Kimi K3 weights — but few can run it
- Why China is giving away its best AI models
- Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
- White House’s Response to China Lacks Confidence in America
- Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable 5 on DeepSWE: Cost and Coding
- 🔮 Will Kimi K3 change the economics of AI?
- Moonshot launched Kimi K3. Then demand shut down subscriptions in 48 hours.
- US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
- Washington Backed Away from Banning Chinese Open AI Models, For Now
- [AINews] not much happened today
- Claude Fable 5 vs. Kimi K3: Same results, one-third the cost, 4x slower
- Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation
- On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontents
- China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
- Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch
- The Sequence Radar #897: Last Week in AI: China, Compression and the Open-Model Race
- 🔮 Kimi K3 surprise & AI economics; the solar paradox; AI's right to learn, cancer vaccine & junior jobs++
- Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.2: Open Trillion-Scale MoE Models Compared on Benchmarks, License, and Serving Cost
- Kimi: Threat or menace?
- Kimi K3 tops Arena’s coding leaderboard — and it’s open-weight
- [AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing
- China has a new top model
- Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3: A 2.8 Trillion Parameter Open MoE Model With Kimi Delta Attention and 1M Context
- Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
- Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
- Kimi Code: Autonomous Coding Agent and CLI
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Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops Kimi K3 · 32 sources
- Develops AgentENV · 1 source
- Deploys Hugging Face · 1 source
- Develops Kimi · 1 source
- Develops MoonEP · 1 source
- Develops K3 · 1 source
- Develops Kimi K2.6 · 1 source
- Develops Kimi CLI · 1 source
- Develops Kimi K2.5 · 1 source
- Develops Kimi K2.7 Code · 1 source
- Develops Kimi K2 · 1 source
Investment & ownership
- Owns Kimi K3 · 1 source