Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter AI model that it says rivals Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5, and plans to release model weights by July 27 (Kimi)

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Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter model claiming frontier-tier performance, with weights planned for release this month.

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<a href="https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260716/i50.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260716/p50#a260716p50" 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.kimi.com/">Kimi</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3">Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter AI model that it says rivals Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5, and plans to release model weights by July 27</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Today, we are introducing Kimi K3 &mdash; our most capable model.&nbsp; Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter model built on our Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals &hellip; </p>