Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin unveiled Kimi K3 at GTC 2026, a 2.8T-parameter open-weight AI model backed by $2B in funding and a $20B valuation.

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.

Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their “most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters”. It’s currently available via their…

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,…

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

Kimi K3 beats latest offerings by US rivals on some benchmarks