Kimi K3

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Cogent AI Team Releases VR-1: A Frontier Cyber Reasoning Model That Composes and Verifies Enterprise Attack Paths MarkTechPost · 7 hours ago · 5 China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy The Verge · 8 hours ago · 20 Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier Interconnects · 1 day ago · 27 The Sequence Radar #906: Last Week in AI: Open Models, Intelligent Robots, and the Price of Conviction TheSequence · 1 day ago · 22 Supabase Releases Evals: an Open Source Benchmark That Scores Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on Real Supabase Tasks MarkTechPost · 2 days ago · 19 Kimi K3: The Complete Developer Guide Together AI · 2 days ago · 47 Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison Simon Willison · 2 days ago · 6 Deploying Kimi K3 on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EKS AWS Machine Learning · 3 days ago · 44

Q3 2026

◆ Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal AI model Model release

◆ Multiple AI companies release competitive open-weight models as industry trend shifts toward openness Open source release

◆ Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 at half the price of Fable 5 with comparable performance Model 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

• 3 Aug Cogent AI Team Releases VR-1: A Frontier Cyber Reasoning Model That Composes and Verifies Enterprise Attack Paths
• 3 Aug China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
• 2 Aug Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
• 2 Aug The Sequence Radar #906: Last Week in AI: Open Models, Intelligent Robots, and the Price of Conviction
• 1 Aug Supabase Releases Evals: an Open Source Benchmark That Scores Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on Real Supabase Tasks
• 1 Aug Kimi K3: The Complete Developer Guide
• 31 Jul Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
• 30 Jul Deploying Kimi K3 on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EKS
• 30 Jul Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
• 30 Jul With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook
• 30 Jul Kimi K3 Redraws the Open Frontier, Muse Spark 1.1 Undercuts Competitors, Cloudflare Moves to Cut Off Crawlers
• 30 Jul Moonshot AI Open-Sources MoonEP: A Perfectly Balanced Expert Parallelism Library for MoE Training
• 29 Jul Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
• 29 Jul Together AI announces strategic partnership with Moonshot AI to natively serve Kimi models
• 28 Jul “This is not in my top ten list of worries”: What Sam Altman thinks about model distillation
• 28 Jul Moonshot Releases Kimi K3 Model Weights on Hugging Face
• 28 Jul [AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
• 27 Jul moonshotai/Kimi-K3
• 27 Jul Kimi AI and kvcache-ai Open Sources ‘AgentENV’: A Distributed System that Powers Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training for Kimi K3
• 27 Jul Moonshot opens Kimi K3 weights — but few can run it
• 27 Jul Why China is giving away its best AI models
• 26 Jul Kimi K3 vs GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing
• 25 Jul Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta and 22 others defended open weights. Anthropic and OpenAI didn’t sign.
• 24 Jul Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 465
• 24 Jul ‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
• 24 Jul Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable 5 on DeepSWE: Cost and Coding
• 23 Jul 🔮 Will Kimi K3 change the economics of AI?
• 23 Jul Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
• 22 Jul Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
• 22 Jul Kimi K3: White House alleges Fable 5 siphoning
• 22 Jul Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next
• 21 Jul Moonshot launched Kimi K3. Then demand shut down subscriptions in 48 hours.
• 21 Jul US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
• 21 Jul “Second only to Fable 5:” Alibaba talks the talk with Qwen3.8 without providing any real data
• 21 Jul Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?
• 21 Jul How to Build Complex Websites with Kimi K3 Prompts
• 21 Jul Washington Backed Away from Banning Chinese Open AI Models, For Now
• 21 Jul [AINews] not much happened today
• 20 Jul 7 Consequences of America Finally Losing Its AI Edge to China
• 20 Jul OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?
• 20 Jul Claude Fable 5 vs. Kimi K3: Same results, one-third the cost, 4x slower
• 20 Jul Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation
• 20 Jul On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontents
• 20 Jul Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan
• 20 Jul The Kimi K3 Moment
• 20 Jul China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
• 19 Jul Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch
• 19 Jul Kimi K3 Pushed Open Models Toward the Frontier
• 19 Jul The Sequence Radar #897: Last Week in AI: China, Compression and the Open-Model Race
• 19 Jul 🔮 Kimi K3 surprise & AI economics; the solar paradox; AI's right to learn, cancer vaccine & junior jobs++

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Products & technology

• Moonshot AI develops this model · 31 sources
• Moonshot develops this model · 16 sources
• AWS deploys this model · 2 sources
• Together AI deploys this model · 2 sources
• Derived from Kimi K2 · 1 source
• Derived from Claude · 1 source
• Derived from Kimi K2.6 · 1 source
• Andon Labs deploys this model · 1 source
• OpenRouter deploys this model · 1 source

Competition

• Competes with Claude Fable 5 · 1 source
• Competes with OpenAI · 1 source

Investment & ownership

• Moonshot AI owns this model · 1 source