The Chinese startup called its AI model the “new frontier of intelligence.”

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

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-source AI model from China that rivals OpenAI, Anthropic and other top U.S. systems in frontier AI benchmarks.

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,…