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Moonshot AI's open-weights family, strong on long context and agentic work.
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Simon Willison · Oct 23, 2026, 4:22 PM EDT
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro
Builders can now get near-frontier benchmark performance at half the price of Claude Opus 5.5, with open weights promised by November 2026.
The Hacker News · Oct 1, 2026, 7:12 AM EDT
OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates
OpenAI's disclosure that it disrupted a months-long reasoning-extraction campaign makes distillation defense a concrete IP-security concern for frontier AI labs.
TechNode · Aug 3, 2026, 4:13 AM EDT
Moonshot AI reportedly closes $3.5 billion round at $35 billion valuation
A reported $3.5 billion raise at a $35 billion valuation gives Moonshot AI fresh capital to scale ahead of a possible Hong Kong listing.
Hacker News · Aug 3, 2026, 2:53 AM EDT
Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
Wafer's benchmark claims AMD's MI355X serves the 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 at better performance per dollar than NVIDIA's B300, challenging NVIDIA's grip on frontier-model inference.
Together AI Blog · Jul 30, 2026, 10:33 PM EDT
Kimi K3 vs GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing
Provides concrete routing and cost-efficiency data for builders choosing between Kimi K3 and GPT-5.6 Sol for complex coding tasks.
ChinAI (Jeffrey Ding) · Jul 30, 2026, 10:33 PM EDT
ChinAI #368: The Affordable Luxury of Kimi K3
Moonshot AI’s premium pricing for Kimi K3 signals a strategic shift in the Chinese AI market away from pure cost-cutting, forcing Western competitors to reassess the viability of their own race-to-the-bottom pricing models.
Simon Willison · Jul 30, 2026, 12:02 PM EDT
moonshotai/Kimi-K3
Moonshot’s new licensing terms restrict commercial Model-as-a-Service use for companies over $20M in revenue without a separate agreement, fundamentally altering the economics of building on this open-weights model.