Kimi K3 open weights
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 model weights with caveats for enterprise use.
Kimi[AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
Everyone is writing a lot, but only Kimi K3 shipped today
Kimi K3's full weights are here, but they're 'open' with a caveat: What enterprises should know
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, creators of the increasingly famous "Kimi K" family of powerful, open AI models, today released the full weights for its largest and most performant version yet — Kimi K3 . But enterprises evaluating the model should read the attached custom Kimi K3 usage license as carefully as the benchmark charts. VentureBeat previously covered Kimi K3 when it debuted through Moonshot's hosted API earlier this month, including its 2.8 trillion-parameter architecture, one millio
Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API
Moonshot AI released open weights for Kimi K3 today and it's live on Telnyx Inference. The architecture and Moonshot's own benchmarks are in their technical blog. This post is about running it on Telnyx. What we are adding: K3 is now available via the Telnyx Inference API, hosted on GPUs that we own and operate. This matters due to the size of this model. A 2.8T model needs dedicated infra to serve well. Because we own and operate the GPUs, we can contorl throughput. with no inter-provider hops
What Is Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Model and Why Is It Making Waves?
Chinese startup Moonshot AI’s new artificial-intelligence model has drawn global attention since its release for its powerful capabilities. Now, Moonshot has made the technology available for public download, a step expected to expand the company’s influence at a time when there is growing US concern about China’s rapid strides in AI development.
Why China is giving away its best AI models
Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of the cost. Its performance alone would have been enough to intensify the rivalry between […]
Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
Related: Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065752 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070985 Points: 289 # Comments: 106
A million words costs $50 from Anthropic and 87 cents from DeepSeek. Corporate America noticed.
Roughly 750,000 words of AI output costs $50 if you buy it from Anthropic’s Fable. The same volume from DeepSeek’s V4-Pro costs about 87 cents, Fortune reported. Z.AI’s GLM-5.2 charges $4.40. Moonshot’s Kimi K3, pricey by Chinese standards, charges $15. Corporate America has noticed. Companies spent a year competing to burn tokens. Now they shop […] This story continues at The Next Web
Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065752 Points: 64 # Comments: 13
China’s Moonshot to Release Breakthrough AI Model for Download
Moonshot AI is poised to make its Kimi K3 model available for public download, expanding its reach and influence in the global open software community at a time of growing US concern about Chinese encroachment into the top echelons of AI development.
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
UK AISI / Caisi Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities
Article URL: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/07/uk-aisi-caisi-preliminary-assessment-kimi-k3s-cyber-capabilities Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044492 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]
Nvidia, Microsoft Lead Call for Open-Weight AI Models After Kimi
A coalition of technology companies led by Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp. called on policymakers to promote the development of open-weight artificial intelligence models, positioning it as key to ensuring the US maintains technological leadership.
‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
“The story that we’re talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
I’ve been building Echo ( https://echo.tracerml.ai/ ), an experiment in making one AI system out of a pool of open-weight models rather than choosing a single model and using it for every task. It started with a simple experiment. I took a group of models, including GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 and others, and ran them on the same evaluations. Then I measured what would happen if, for each problem, you somehow knew in advance which models would be useful and how their outputs should be combined. That hypo
Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server
https://xcancel.com/fried_rice/status/2080059356322918777 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024938 Points: 187 # Comments: 50
White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3
The model that rattled Silicon Valley last week now has Washington’s attention. A senior White House official has accused China’s Moonshot AI of breaking US export controls to build Kimi K3. It reached restricted Nvidia chips, he said, and leaned on American models to do it. Kratsios directs the White House Office of Science and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S. government could sanction Chinese AI companies after White House officials accused Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop Kimi K3.
OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation
OpenAI president Greg Brockman called Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 “pretty good” in a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday, a rare public acknowledgement from a US frontier lab that a Chinese rival has produced a competitive model. Brockman said it is “too early” to determine whether Moonshot trained K3 by distilling outputs from OpenAI’s own systems, a […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI President Says Kimi K3 ‘Pretty Good,’ Unsure If Distilled
OpenAI President Greg Brockman acknowledged that Moonshot AI had developed a competitive new artificial intelligence model and said he wasn’t sure whether the Chinese firm had piggybacked on the ChatGPT maker’s technology.
White House Official Says Moonshot Accessed Banned Nvidia Chips
A White House official accused China’s Moonshot of improperly using US AI models and Nvidia Corp. chips to create the Kimi K3 system that stunned the tech industry last week with its advanced capabilities.
The U.S. wants to contain China’s AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it
As Apple, Thinking Machines, and developers worldwide embrace Chinese AI models such as Kimi K3, U.S. policymakers are struggling to protect the AI lead.
Kimi K3: second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/kimi-k3-agentic-knowledge-benchmark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001930 Points: 58 # Comments: 6
Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Article URL: https://fireworks.ai/blog/kimik3-fable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999291 Points: 377 # Comments: 213
China's New AI Model Halts New Subscriptions As Demand Swamps Capacity
Moonshot AI has temporarily paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand surged beyond the company's current capacity within days of the launch. The open-source Chinese AI model, described as one of the largest of its kind at 2.8 trillion parameters, has rattled U.S. rivals by beating Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in front-end coding tests. The Associated Press reports: "Kimi K3 has received far more love than we expected," Moonshot AI, which is Beijing-based, wrote
Kimi Work
Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/products/kimi-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981703 Points: 28 # Comments: 5
Everything You Need to Know About Kimi K3, the Latest Model From China to Shake Up AI
Here's how the web reacted to Kimi K3's performance, politics, and how it changes the AI race.
Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
Article URL: https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/frontier-lab-economics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980019 Points: 159 # Comments: 158
Moonshot’s Kimi AI Model Sets Off Anxiety in the US
Moonshot’s release of Kimi K3 sparked fierce debate in the US
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Stuns Investors, Challenges Anthropic, OpenAI Lead
Moonshot’s release is forcing Silicon Valley to reconsider long-held assumptions
Can Kimi K3 Help China Beat US for AI Dominance?: Live Q&A
Bloomberg reporters answer your questions on China’s push to lead the AI race on July 20 at 3 p.m. HKT / 8 a.m. BST
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 May Be More About Memory Than Compute
When DeepSeek’s R1 debuted in early 2025, almost $600 billion was wiped out from Nvidia Corp.’s market value in a single day on fears that artificial intelligence would require less computing power than previously expected. Moonshot AI’s release of Kimi K3 on Friday triggered a similar reaction, helping push semiconductor stocks sharply lower.
Open Models Tack Toward the Frontier
Open-weight models have repeatedly reached equivalency with closed frontier models, first with DeepSeek R1, then GLM-4.6, GLM-5.2, & Kimi K3. But open source has not materially led; closed models such as GPT-5.2-class systems & Opus continue to create step-change moments.
Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand
Article URL: https://twitter.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2078855608565207130 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969291 Points: 127 # Comments: 45
Kimi: Threat or menace?
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."
The Kimi K3 Moment
Article URL: https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960218 Points: 178 # Comments: 162
Moonshot’s Kimi Upends Conventional Wisdom on US Lead Over China
At an event in Beijing earlier this year, some of China’s top artificial intelligence leaders warned that the country remained meaningfully behind the US in developing cutting-edge AI models, with one executive arguing that “the gap may actually be widening.”
China’s Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi Model, Threatening America’s Lead
China’s Moonshot AI unveiled a freely available artificial intelligence model that seemed to narrow the gap with cutting-edge offerings from U.S. tech companies.
China Just Erased America's AI Lead
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Axios: Kimi K3, a massive new model by Beijing-based Moonshot AI, threatens the foundations of Americas AI boom. Its release Thursday dazzled developers, jolted Silicon Valley and reset the AI race overnight. Kimi immediately vaulted into the top tier of global AI, beating Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in front-end coding tests by AI evaluator Arena. In Arenas broader text ranking, Kimi finished ahead of Anthropics Opus 4.8 -
Trump’s AI advisor says Kimi K3 shows “how you lose the AI race.” Khosla blames immigration. Marcus wants a congressional investigation.
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 topped Arena’s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol. It placed third on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index. The reaction from Washington, Wall Street, and academia was swift and pointed. TNW covered the model’s capabilities at launch, but the political and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Moonshot reveals new AI model, and it's a big surprise — here's why Kimi K3 is a threat to the likes of OpenAI
Kimi K3 model is a threat to the likes of OpenAI for two key reasons: its open nature, and apparently sterling coding skills.
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947717 Points: 68 # Comments: 35
A Chinese open-source model just triggered another AI selloff. The panic says more about US spending than about Kimi.
A new Chinese AI model has rattled global markets, sending tech and chip stocks sharply lower. Moonshot’s Kimi K3 surprised investors and helped fuel a broad selloff, Bloomberg reports. Traders quickly labelled it a “Kimi moment”, echoing the DeepSeek shock of early 2025. The comparison is doing a lot of work, and not all of it […] This story continues at The Next Web
Weekly Dose of Optimism #202
Saronic, Austin Week, Walden + Sunday Robots, Lipfendra, Kimi + Inkling + Extra Doses
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 closes the frontier gap
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[AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing
a great week for open models continues.
China has a new top model
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is very good — but the hype may be getting ahead of reality. (For now.)
China’s Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba, on Thursday released Kimi K3 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter model that the company says is now the largest open-source AI model in the world, and one that benchmarks show performs neck-and-neck with the most powerful proprietary systems from Anthropic and OpenAI . The release, timed to land just ahead of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, is a dramatic escalation in the global AI arms race a