Kimi K3 Goes Live, Shows Strong Performance in Tests
basedjensen · x · 2026-07-16
Retweets indicate Kimi K3 has gone live. After testing it in the arena under the name " Kivine ", the author believes its output performance is exceptionally strong, even stating that the gap between open-source and frontier models has noticeably narrowed.
The original post also mentions that multiple major releases might happen that day, including the official launch of K3, Opus 5, and potential updates from OpenAI on Codex Thursday.
Related event: Kimi K3 hype builds as KIVINE appears on Arena(43 posts)→
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