Moonshot AI Readies to Release Kimi K3 for Public Download
The 2.8-trillion-parameter model outperforms leading systems on benchmarks and will release its weights publicly, Moonshot AI said.
- On Monday, July 27, 2026, Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-source AI model developed with 2.8 trillion parameters, making it the largest open-source model in the world.
- Surpassing the 1.6 trillion parameters of DeepSeek, the model processes one million tokens in a single task, enabling complex operations like generating interactive 3D environments from photographs.
- Ranking first on the LLM Arena leaderboard, Kimi demonstrated rapid software development abilities, including a full macOS replication in 30 minutes, matching performance from Anthropic and OpenAI.
- Performance test results placing Kimi ahead of Claude Fable 5 and GPT5.6 Sol sparked intense debate in Washington, with Dean Ball at OpenAI raising concerns about Chinese models challenging American competitiveness.
- Chinese President Jinping called for international AI development last Friday, while David Sacks of the Trump administration argued that excessive regulation of data centers threatens American innovation.
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Chinese Moonshot AI publishes the file that makes Kimi K3 work and leaves it downloadable for anyone, along with the report that explains how it has built it
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I tried to test China’s newest ChatGPT rival but couldn’t get in — and it exposed the next big problem facing the major AI players
China’s latest ChatGPT rival, Kimi, is now available for download on the Apple App Store, so I downloaded it on my iPhone, intending to test it against ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. I had the prompts ready; I had the comparison planned. Then Kimi presented me with a very modern problem that I wasn’t expecting: too many people were already trying to talk to it.This is not just app-launch inconvenience. It captures one of the biggest problems in AI …
The AI giants’ new problem: open AI
People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, July 20th. | Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images 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 perfor…
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights, largest free AI model ever at 2.8 trillion parameters - Tech Startups
The race to build the biggest open-source AI model just took another leap forward. Chinese startup Moonshot AI has released the full open weights of Kimi K3, handing developers free access to what is now the largest open-weight AI model […] The post Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights, largest free AI model ever at 2.8 trillion parameters first appeared on Tech Startups.
Moonshot’s Kimi K3, the Chinese AI model spooking Silicon Valley
US dominance of the AI landscape is receding with the release of Kimi K3, the newest model developed by a Chinese start-up called Moonshot AI.Kimi K3 is as “powerful as the most advanced AI systems” from the US, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, while being “cheaper to run”, said The Telegraph. It is available for people to freely download and is an “open-weight model”. This allows developers to download it, modify it and run it on their own servers…
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