Pi Switches Back to Kimi K3
carsonfarmer · x · 2026-07-17
Pi switched back to Kimi K3 this week. The original post highlights that this combination of "open model + open harness" is worth watching.
Highlighted selling points include:
- Native multimodal support
- Long context and long-horizon workflows
- A 6.3x speed improvement for 1 million token-level contexts
Overall, the message is that Kimi K3 is now better suited for open-ended building scenarios.
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