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China's Moonshot AI releases massive open-weight Kimi K3 model
The Decoder Just like Deepseek, China's Kimi K3 is forcing Western AI labs to question their compute advantage
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that early assessments show matches the performance of leading Western proprietary models.
Why it matters
A highly capable, open-weight model built by a small team challenges the assumption that only massive Western labs can build top-tier AI.
Latest brief · Jul 22, 2026