An open-weight model that matches leading proprietary models on enterprise tasks, now available with full governance in Databricks environments everywhere.
by Yuchen Liu, Harish Gaur and Margaret Amori
A year ago, the best open-weight models trailed their proprietary counterparts by a wide margin. That gap has narrowed significantly increasing optionality for customers. Today, we're pleased to announce that Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI, the most advanced open-weight model, is available on Databricks. By offering native access to Kimi K3, together with top proprietary models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Gemini customers have maximum choice and control, and can build with confidence knowing the models are fully governed by Unity AI Gateway within their secure Databricks perimeter.
Kimi K3 is an open-weight model that delivers frontier-level quality on the enterprise tasks that matter most, at a fraction of the cost. For enterprises, this changes the calculus. Customers no longer have to choose between quality and control. Kimi K3 delivers state-of-the-art coding, agentic reasoning, and document understanding while giving you the deployment flexibility, cost efficiency, and customizability that open weights provide, all governed through Unity AI Gateway and comprehensive ZDR coverage.
