Beijing-based start-up reportedly plans Kimi K3 release in coming days, with open model set to surpass performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8

Moonshot AI plans to launch its 2.5 trillion parameter Kimi K3 model around July 15 to compete with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, with implications for

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is the largest open-weight model ever released - 2.8 trillion parameters, a million-token memory, benchmark scores within touching distance of GPT-5.6 Sol,…