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

Kimi K3 has 2.8 trillion parameters, 1 million context, and native multimodal capabilities, with Kimi Delta Attention enabling up to 6.3x faster decoding. It ranks near Claude Fable on benchmarks and is competitive with Opus 4.8 and GPT-5 on intelligence index.
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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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Quoting Kimi K3simonwillison.net
Chinese startup Moonshot AI unveils Kimi model it says rivals OpenAI, Anthropiccnbc.com
Fable, Sol Pro, Kimi K3: "write me a short but good poem using the Odyssey as a basis, think Tennyso...bsky.app