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Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
The latest iteration of Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI’s Kimi model series is expected to perform at par with or even surpass Anthropic’s Opus 4.8, Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources.
Moonshot’s Kimi K2 models have been received well in the open source AI market, ranking high on benchmarks and demonstrating capabilities that aren’t too far behind the latest frontier models.
The company’s upcoming release, called Kimi K3, is said to take this one step further to close the gap with closed-source models from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open-weight AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion, and will be released “in the coming days.”
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Kimi's open model K3 nears GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 while signaling the end of super cheap Chinese AI
Kimi is launching K3, a multimodal model with 2.8 trillion parameters and a context window of one million tokens. In the company's own benchmarks, it performs on par with leading proprietary models.
According to Kimi, the new flagship model K3 has 2.8 trillion total parameters, processes images and video natively, and supports a context window of one million tokens. Kimi calls K3 the first open model in the roughly 3 trillion parameter range. Full model weights are scheduled for release by July 27. The model targets long-running programming tasks, knowledge work, and complex reasoning.
In Kimi's own benchmarks, K3 still trails the top proprietary models Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol but beats every other system tested, including the Claude Opus models and Chinese rival GLM-5.2. All results come from Kimi and were achieved at maximum or high thinking intensity, according to the company.
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