🔮 Kimi K3 surprise & AI economics; the solar paradox; AI's right to learn, cancer vaccine & junior jobs++

Exponential View · 1 day ago ● 3 sources

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model performs comparably to Claude Opus and GPT 5.6 but costs 24 times more than DeepSeek V4 Pro on a per-token basis. The emergence of competitive open-weight models will increase token demand and push revenue toward infrastructure providers rather than model companies. As AI capabilities become more commoditized through open models, ensuring free learning from lawfully accessible material—similar to copyright frameworks that historically enabled knowledge compounding—will be critical for competitive positioning.