China's Moonshot Unveils 2.8 Trillion Parameter Kimi K3, Topping Some Benchmarks
# Kimi K3# Moonshot AI# open source AI
Key Points
- Moonshot AI announced the Kimi K3 large language model
- Billed as the world's first open 3-trillion-class model
- It beats leading US frontier models on select benchmarks
Analysis
China's AI chase just accelerated. Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 at 2.8 trillion parameters — billed as the first open trillion-class model of its scale — topping select benchmarks against US frontier models. Open weights at this scale rewrite the assumption that top capability means closed APIs.