Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model described as their most capable to date, with open weights promised by July 27, 2026.
Read the original at simonwillison.net→Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their "most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters". It's currently available via their website and API, but an open weight...
Original headline: "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"
Coverage timeline
- Jul 16, 14:26 UTC TechCrunch AI Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
- Jul 16, 20:19 UTC Simon Willison lead source Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
- Jul 16, 23:02 UTC Hacker News (AI) Kimi K3 beats GPT 5.6 Sol in agentic knowledge work
- Jul 17, 13:39 UTC Hacker News (AI) Kimi K3 may be an important inflection point for AI
- Jul 18, 18:51 UTC TechCrunch AI Kimi: Threat or menace?
- Jul 19, 08:29 UTC Hacker News (AI) Where I erred in my original post about Kimi and my views on open-weight AI
- Jul 20, 16:06 UTC Hacker News (AI) Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation