Rumor: Kimi K3 Releasing Tonight
NinaDSchick · x · 2026-07-16
Nina Schick relayed news regarding Moonshot: Kimi K3 is expected to release as early as tonight and could become one of China's largest AI models by parameter count, with rumors suggesting a size between 2 and 3 trillion parameters.
The cited source also claims this open-weight model is expected to outperform Claude Opus 4.8 on key benchmarks. Commenting on this, she noted: the model itself may not be the moat.
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