Moonshot AI

Chinese AI company, maker of Kimi models

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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 Trillion Parameter Open-Weight Model; AWS Publishes Deployment Guide

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 27, 2026, a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1 million token context window and native multimodal support. AWS has published a deployment guide covering SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EKS using ml.p6-b300.48xlarge instances with 8 NVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs.

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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3 Weights: 2.8 Trillion Parameters, Tighter Commercial License

Moonshot AI has released the weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model weighing in at 1.56TB on Hugging Face. The new license drops the 'modified MIT' framing and now requires companies earning over $20 million in 12-month revenue from Model-as-a-Service offerings to sign a separate agreement with Moonshot.

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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3: Open-Weight 2.8T-Parameter Model With 1M-Token Context and Native Multimodality

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, an open-weight 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 104B activated parameters, a 1,048,576-token context window, and native multimodal support. The company describes it as the world's first open 3T-class model, built on a new Kimi Delta Attention architecture.

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Kimi K3 Scores 32% on Cyber Exploit Benchmark vs. 76% for Leading U.S. Models, Joint UK-US Study Finds

A joint evaluation by the UK AI Security Institute and U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation found Kimi K3 scores 32.2% on the ExploitBench benchmark versus 76.2% for leading U.S. models, though it beats China's GLM-5.2 at 24.4%. The gap may stem from Moonshot AI distilling Claude outputs that exclude advanced offensive cyber content.

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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3: 2.8T Parameter Open Model at $3/$15 Per Million Tokens

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model with 1 million token context window and native multimodal input. The model ranks #1 in Frontend Code Arena and #9 in Text Arena, with pricing at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens—comparable to Claude Sonnet 5 pricing while delivering performance the company claims is near Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5.

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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 ranks #2 globally, will release 2.8T parameter weights July 27

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026, a 2.8 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model that ranks #2 on the Vals AI index and #3 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index. The company will release the model's weights on July 27, making it the strongest open-weight model to date, surpassing all previous open releases including DeepSeek R1.

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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open source model, claims frontier-level performance

Chinese company Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open source model that the company claims demonstrates frontier-level performance while trailing only Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol. Independent analyses from Arena.ai and Vals AI suggest the model is competitive with flagship frontier models, reigniting debate about Chinese AI capabilities and open source model development.

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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, China's largest model at 2.8 trillion parameters

Beijing-based Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, China's largest AI model at 2.8 trillion parameters. The company claims the model consistently outperforms OpenAI's GPT 5.5 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on benchmarks including coding and general agents, though it still trails the leading-edge GPT 5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 in overall performance.

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Moonshot AI releases 2.8T parameter Kimi K3, pricing at $3/$15 per million tokens

Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. The model is currently available via API, with open weights promised by July 27, 2026. This represents the most expensive pricing from a Chinese AI lab to date, matching Anthropic's Claude Sonnet series.

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