Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal model with a 1-million-token context window, available on Hugging Face. The model uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture that activates 16 out of 896 experts, achieving approximately 2.5 times better scaling efficiency than its predecessor Kimi K2. The open release enables researchers and developers to build and deploy frontier AI systems for coding, knowledge work, and reasoning tasks.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weights model with 104B active parameters, which independent benchmarks show outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and ranks first among open models on agent benchmarks. The release included supporting infrastructure (FlashKDA kernels, MoE libraries, distributed agent environments) and uses source-available rather than permissive open-source licensing, with commercial restrictions on hosting providers over $20M/year revenue and products over 100M users. Meanwhile, NVIDIA launched an Open Secure AI Alliance arguing that defenders need access to both open and closed models for security, while Anthropic clarified it does not oppose open-weights models but supports chip controls and safety testing instead.
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