Kimi K3 tops Arena's coding leaderboard — and it's open-weight

Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 tops Arena's coding leaderboard. The Chinese startup's release signals open-weight models catching up with proprietary rivals like Anthropic's Fable and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol.
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