WASHINGTON, July 18 — Kimi K3, a new artificial intelligence program from a Chinese startup called Moonshot AI, stunned the US tech industry on Friday, setting off fresh...

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.

Kimi K3's early performance is fueling alarm in Silicon Valley and Washington.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters rivals Claude and GPT on benchmarks, with big implications for crypto AI projects.

China's Moonshot throws down the gauntlet with Kimi K3, the world's largest open-weights model - SiliconANGLE

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

“K3 stands as Moonshot AI's most powerful open-source coding model to date,” Moonshot AI wrote in a press release.

Kimi K3 is designed for long-horizon coding, knowledge work and reasoning tasks, according to a blog post by Moonshot AI.

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Kimi K3 drew excitement from industry insiders, with some evoking a 2025 release from China's DeepSeek that shook assumptions of US dominance in AI.

It's the latest AI model from China to close the performance gap with leading U.S. AI labs.

Mit Deepseek schockte ein Modell aus China die US-Riesen. Nun startet der nächste Herausforderer: „Kimi K3“ von Moonshot soll es mit den neuesten Modellen von Anthropic und OpenAI…

2.8-trillion-parameter model designed for frontier intelligence; Kimi K3 outperforms leading U.S. models, company says.

Kimi's K3 model has caught up to the American frontier.

Moonshot's Kimi K3 AI model disrupts global markets, causing Alphabet's odds of being the second-largest company by market cap on July 31 to drop to 9.5% YES.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model rattled global markets, sending rival AI stocks down as much as 27% while raising questions about AI sector valuations.

Chinese start-up Moonshot AI’s new Kimi K3 boasts a performance close to OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest models.

Moonshot AI's latest model is impressing developers with its coding skills, low API costs, and open-weight strategy.

Moonshot's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight AI model, triggered a selloff in AI and semiconductor stocks reminiscent of the 2025 DeepSeek

Im KI-Wettlauf zwischen USA und China sorgt das chinesische Start-up Moonshot AI für einen erneuten „DeepSeek Moment“: Das AI-Modell „Kimi K3“ verunsichert US-Investoren und setzt…

Kimi K3 beats latest offerings by US rivals on some benchmarks