Moonshot AI releases model weights for Kimi K3 under the "Kimi K3 License" (Bloomberg)
Moonshot AI released downloadable Kimi K3 weights, adding a major Chinese open-weights model to the frontier model race.
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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260727/p22#a260727p22" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-27/china-s-moonshot-to-release-breakthrough-ai-model-for-download">Moonshot AI releases model weights for Kimi K3 under the “Kimi K3 License”</a></b></span> — Moonshot AI has made its Kimi K3 model available for public download, expanding its reach and influence in the global open software community at a time of growing US concern about Chinese encroachment into the top echelons of AI development.</p>
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