LaunchAI ModelsJuly 29, 2026
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-MoE open-weight model

Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter MoE model with native visual understanding and a 1M-token context window; weights and technical report were released on Hugging Face. It takes #1 on Code Arena's fullstack rankings, leads open-weight models in Agent Arena, and sits #2 on the Vals Index.
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reteetzad/Kimi-K3huggingface.co
Code Arena now measures fullstack capabilities! View overall rankings across AI models on...x.com
What Is Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Model and Why Is It Making Waves?bloomberg.com
On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontentsthezvi.substack.com
[AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricinglatent.space
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmarksimonwillison.net
A lot of swift conclusions are being drawn about Kimi K3 based on fairly saturated benchmarks and EL...bsky.app
Kimi K3 Benchmarked: Is It Really as Good as the Hype?mindstudio.ai
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so goodtechcrunch.com
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