The Chinese model, the world’s largest open-weight model publicly available, dropped a few minutes shy of the expected 11AM ET. The timing of the release clearly targets the US market and it is already having a major impact on American AI, as shown by the furious debate surrounding open AI (not to be confused with OpenAI) systems.

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-source model, intensifying the US-China AI competition and reshaping the market

Moonshot AI is set to release its advanced Kimi K3 model, signaling China's ambition to challenge US dominance in cutting-edge artificial intelligence development.