Kimi K3
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Overview
Largest open-weights LLM ever: 2.8T total / ~104B active (16 of 896 experts), Kimi Delta Attention + attention residuals for a claimed 2.5x...
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Details
- Vendor
- Moonshot AI
- Type
- Multimodal LLM
- Release year
- 2026
- Jurisdiction
- China
- CEO
- Yang Zhilin
- Key staffers
- Yang Zhilin (CEO/Founder)
- Deployment
- API (Jul 16) + full open weights on Hugging Face (Jul 27; bespoke Kimi K3 license, not OSI)
- Open source
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes
- Subscription
- API: ~$3/M input, $15/M output — identical across providers per license terms (~half of Opus 4.8 / GPT-5.6 Sol).
- Stock status
- Private ($3B+ valuation)
- X
- @MoonshotAI
Known safety issues
None publicly documented
AIDb Rating
AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 9/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 10/10 · Significance 9/10 → 9.35
Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“Kimi K3.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/moonshot-ai-kimi-k3.html
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