China's Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K3 Model to Rival US Competitors
Chinese startup Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model designed to compete with advanced systems from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has officially launched Kimi K3, which it describes as its most capable frontier model to date. The company claims that the new model is capable of rivaling some of the most advanced artificial intelligence models currently offered by US-based competitors Anthropic and OpenAI. The launch represents a significant step for the Chinese firm as it seeks to close the technology gap with its American rivals.[1][2]
According to Moonshot AI, Kimi K3 is a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that features a 1-million-token context window. The startup announced that Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model. It has been specifically designed to handle frontier intelligence tasks, with a particular focus on long-horizon coding and knowledge processing.[1][2]



