China's Moonshot AI Chases 'DeepSeek Moment' with Much-Hyped Model
Moonshot said Kimi K3 outperforms several rivals and will release full model weights July 27, signaling faster progress among Chinese AI labs.
- On Friday, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-source model designed for complex reasoning tasks, signaling China's intensifying effort to narrow the technological gap with leading international AI companies.
- As recently as last week, an Anthropic executive estimated the company's technology was roughly 12 months ahead of Chinese rivals, a confidence now challenged by Kimi K3's capabilities.
- Built on a Mixture-of-Experts framework, Kimi K3 activates 16 out of 896 experts using Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, outperforming OpenAI's GPT-5 and Anthropic's Claude Opus in benchmarks.
- Designed for complex workflows, Kimi K3 features native vision capabilities and a one-million-token context window, completing research tasks in two hours that typically require one to two weeks of manual effort.
- Available now through Kimi and the Kimi API, the model will see full weights released by July 27, 2026, alongside a technical report covering its architecture and training process.
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China’s Moonshot AI Releases Open-Source Kimi K3 Model, Challenging Anthropic’s Opus
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China's Moonshot AI chases 'DeepSeek moment' with much-hyped model
Chinese startup Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 large language model on Friday. This new model is generating significant excitement within the technology sector. Experts suggest Kimi K3 could rival advanced offerings from American artificial intelligence labs. Its open-source nature and lower costs are attracting programmers globally. This development signals China's growing influence in the artificial intelligence landscape.
Artificial intelligence. The model Kimi K3 of the Chinese start-up Moonshot is supposed to partially put the US competition in the shadow.
World's first 3-trillion model from China does weeks of work in hours
Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-source AI model described as the world’s first open 3T-class model. Hailed as the largest open-source AI model released to date, Kimi K3 follows Zhipu AI’s release of GLM-5.2 one month earlier. Efforts are intensifying among Chinese AI developers to narrow the gap with leading U.S. AI companies, according to the South China Morning Post. Designed for complex, long-horizon workflows,…
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