Moonshot's free Kimi K3 matches Anthropic's Opus 4.8, closing the gap between open and proprietary AI

Digitimes
Jul 16, 2026, 9:59 pm185 ptsTrendingTop
Chinese AI developer Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model the company bills as the first open model in the roughly 3-trillion-parameter class, pushing the distance between freely downloadable systems and the industry's top proprietary models to its narrowest point yet.…

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