Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T parameter open-weights model

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1. Jul 15
   • Kimi K3 has been teased officially 👀
2. Jul 16
   • Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8techcrunch.com
   • Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmarksimonwillison.net
   • 24 community posts
3. Jul 17
   • Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3: A 2.8 Trillion Parameter Open MoE Model With Kimi Delta Attention and 1M Contextmarktechpost.com
   • [AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricinglatent.space
   • China’s Powerful New Moonshot AI Model Closes Gap With US Rivalsbloomberg.com
   • Chinese startup Moonshot AI unveils Kimi model it says rivals OpenAI, Anthropiccnbc.com
   • Kimi K3 just beat FABLE.youtube.com
   • China’s Powerful New AI Surprises Investors, Fueling Tech Routbloomberg.com
   • Kimi K3 tops Arena’s coding leaderboard — and it’s open-weightthenewstack.io
   • China’s Kimi K3 Is Out—And Beats Claude Fable and GPT 5.6 Sol on Key Benchmarksdecrypt.co
   • Kimi K3 Just Triggered DeepSeek Flashbacks for the Stock Marketdecrypt.co
   • What Is Moonshot AI? Why China’s New Model Is Roiling Marketsbloomberg.com
   • 16 community posts
4. Jul 18
   • Kimi: Threat or menace?techcrunch.com
   • 7 community posts
5. Jul 19
   • Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.2: Open Trillion-Scale MoE Models Compared on Benchmarks, License, and Serving Costmarktechpost.com
   • RT @ValsAI: Kimi K3 is the #2 overall model on our in-house Vibe Code Bench at 85.0%. VCB tests a...
6. Jul 20
   • China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominancetheverge.com
   • On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontentsthezvi.substack.com
   • Kimi K3: The open-weights escalationinterconnects.ai
   • ‘Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?’stratechery.com
   • Tested Kimi K3 for Codingdotnetperls.com
   • Open-Weight AI Reaches the Frontier: What Kimi K3 Means for Your Agent Stackmindstudio.ai
   • Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable 5: Which Open-Weight Model Wins for Agentic Coding?mindstudio.ai
   • What Is Kimi K3? Moonshot AI's Open-Weight Frontier Model Explainedmindstudio.ai
   • Claude Fable 5 vs. Kimi K3: Same results, one-third the cost, 4x slowerthenewstack.io
7. Jul 21
   • 6 community posts
8. Jul 22
   • Kimi K3: second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcaseartificialanalysis.ai
   • Kimi K3 just parameter mogged every open-weight model…youtube.com
   • Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fabletechcrunch.com
   • 5 community posts
9. Jul 23
   • Microsoft reportedly evaluates Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 for Copilottechnode.com
10. Jul 24
    • audnai/penclaw-Kimi-K3.0-abliterated-GGUFhuggingface.co
    • 2 community posts
11. Jul 25
    • China’s open AI strategy is changing the race
12. Jul 26
    • 2 community posts
13. Jul 27
    • Anthropic and OpenAI are terrified of Kimiyoutube.com
    • China’s Moonshot to Release Breakthrough AI Model for Downloadbloomberg.com
    • Kimi K3 vs GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routingtogether.ai
    • Kimi K3 Benchmarked: Is It Really as Good as the Hype?mindstudio.ai
    • What Is Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Model and Why Is It Making Waves?bloomberg.com
    • Moonshot opens Kimi K3 weights — but few can run itthenewstack.io
    • Kimi AI and kvcache-ai Open Sources ‘AgentENV’: A Distributed System that Powers Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training for Kimi K3marktechpost.com
    • moonshotai/Kimi-K3simonwillison.net
    • 18 community posts
14. Jul 28
    • Kimi K3 Architecture Notessebastianraschka.com
    • 7 community posts
15. Jul 29
    • Kimi K3 AI Is Insaneyoutube.com
    • Together AI announces strategic partnership with Moonshot AI to natively serve Kimi modelstogether.ai
    • 4 community posts
16. Jul 30
    • Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 reaches enterprise users through Fireworks on Microsoft Foundrytechnode.com
    • 5 community posts
17. Jul 31
    • As shocking as the Kimi K3 release. Massive performance gain was just with post-training Model...
18. Aug 1
    • How To Skip The Kimi K3 Waitlistyoutube.com
19. Aug 2
    • Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontierinterconnects.ai
    • 2 community posts
20. Aug 3
    • 3 community posts
21. Aug 5
    • .@Kimi_Moonshot benchmarked K3 endpoints across major inference providers. Together AI leads or...