LaunchAI ModelsJuly 20, 2026
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 model

The Kimi K3 model features 2.8 trillion parameters, making it the largest open-weights model released to date. While it shows strong benchmark performance, early analysis suggests it remains approximately four to six months behind the current closed-model frontier.
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