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  • Kimi K3 Open Weights Ship: 2.8T Parameters, 1.4 TB to Run

    Kimi K3 Open Weights Ship: 2.8T Parameters, 1.4 TB to Run

    Moonshot AI released the full Kimi K3 weights on July 27, 2026, hitting the date it promised when the model debuted eleven days earlier. K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1-million-token context window and native vision — the first open 3T-class model ever published. The download is 1.56 TB across 118 files, and […]

  • Kimi K3 Hits Third on Artificial Analysis; Open Weights Due July 27

    Kimi K3 Hits Third on Artificial Analysis; Open Weights Due July 27

    Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1-million-token context window that now sits third on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ahead of Claude Opus 4.8 and behind only Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. The full weights are promised by July 27, which would make K3 […]

  • Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.6 with 256K Context and 300-Agent Swarms

    Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.6 with 256K Context and 300-Agent Swarms

    Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6 on April 20, 2026, shipping an open-weight trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that leads headline agentic and coding benchmarks against GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6, while pushing its Agent Swarm system to 300 sub-agents running 4,000 coordinated steps. The weights are available on Hugging Face under a Modified MIT License, and the […]

  • Cursor’s Composer 2 Exposed as Kimi K2.5 Under the Hood

    Cursor’s Composer 2 Exposed as Kimi K2.5 Under the Hood

    Cursor’s launch of Composer 2 on March 19, 2026 turned into one of the AI industry’s most public attribution scandals when a developer discovered within hours that the “self-developed” coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s open-source Kimi K2.5. The incident has reignited debate over transparency, open-source licensing, and what it means to […]

  • Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.5 with Agent Swarm and Frontier Vision

    Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.5 with Agent Swarm and Frontier Vision

    Key points Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5 on January 27, 2026, an open-weight model combining a trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture with native multimodal reasoning and Agent Swarm. Kimi K2.5 is built on a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 1 trillion total parameters, of which only 32 billion are activated per token. Agent Swarm decomposes complex tasks into subtasks […]

  • Alibaba‑backed Moonshot Unveils Kimi K2: A High‑Performance, Cost‑Effective Rival to ChatGPT and Claude

    Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, backed by Alibaba, has released Kimi K2, a powerful open‑source language model designed to compete directly with market leaders like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 (Reuters). Key points Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, backed by Alibaba, has released Kimi K2, an open-source language model designed to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and […]