People walk past the Moonshot booth promoting its Kimi K3 AI model, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, July 17, 2026. [Photo/Agencies]

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

Chinese AI startup Moonshot has unveiled Kimi K3, its latest flagship AI model, claiming it is the world's first open-source model in the 3-trillion-parameter class. The launch…

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.

Kimi K3 beats latest offerings by US rivals on some benchmarks

By Christine Ji and Hannah Pedone

Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 on Friday, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model that pairs native vision with a 1-million-token context window, in…