LaunchAI ModelsJuly 27, 2026
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, 2.8T open-weight model

Kimi K3 hit #1 trending on Hugging Face within 30 minutes (4,000+ likes) and launched day-0 on AWS, Together AI, Perplexity, DigitalOcean, Nebius, Fireworks, Baseten, and Modal. Kimi K3 (Max) tops the fullstack Code Arena and leads open-weight models in Agent Arena with +9.75% net improvement.
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Deploying Kimi K3 on AWSaws.amazon.com
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Kimi K3 vs GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routingtogether.ai
RT @togethercompute: We analyzed Kimi K3 vs. Claude Fable 5 for software engineering tasks using...x.com
Kimi K3: The open-weights escalationinterconnects.ai
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Stuns Investors, Challenges Anthropic, OpenAI Leadbloomberg.com
moonshotai/Kimi-K3simonwillison.net
On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontentsthezvi.substack.com
Chinese startup Moonshot AI unveils Kimi model it says rivals OpenAI, Anthropiccnbc.com
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