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Simon Willison Simon Willison 17 July 2026, 13:43

Kimi K3 refused to leak its system prompt when asked, responding with a question about whether it could help with something else. The interaction was collected and posted by Simon Willison on July 17, 2026, and categorized under AI, generative AI, and LLM topics. This demonstrates how modern AI models are designed to decline requests that compromise their internal instructions.

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Is there something I can actually help you with today? — Kimi K3, after refusing to leak its system prompt Tags: kimi, ai-personality, generative-ai, ai, llms

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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