Kimi K3: from Arena-topping launch to controversy and commercialization

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 topped the Arena web coding leaderboard on launch day, beating Claude Fable 5 as the first free open-source model to do so. A detailed timeline traces its journey from launch to a White House plagiarism accusation in July and Amazon sales starting in September.

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