Kimi K3 vs Qwen 3.8 Max: the race is getting tight
johnseach · x · 2026-07-20
A post compares Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 Max, saying Alibaba’s new Qwen 3.8 Max has entered the ring just after Moonshot’s Kimi K3 shook up the market.
The author’s current read:
- Kimi K3 has more proven public evidence, including Arena data and independent evaluations
- Qwen 3.8 Max looks very strong on coding and efficiency, but is still early and mostly supported by vendor claims so far
- The gap between the two is now very small, especially in agentic and long-horizon tasks
Practical advice: don’t crown a permanent winner yet; run both and wait for more Arena votes and external benchmarks over the next 1–2 weeks.
Related event: Kimi K3 vs Qwen 3.8 Max: Fierce Competition in Chinese LLMs(4 posts)→
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