LaunchAI ModelsJuly 16, 2026
Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a 2.8T parameter open-weight model

Kimi K3 features 2.8 trillion parameters, 1 million token context, and native multimodality. It uses Kimi Delta Attention for up to 6.3x faster decoding and Attention Residuals for ~25% higher training efficiency. Early benchmarks rank it 3rd on VoxelBench and show it competitive with Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.
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RT @BrianRoemmele: Kimi K3 is a gut punch to Anthropic. Its over. A 2.8T open-weight-bound Chinese...x.com
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