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Kimi K3 Open-Weight Release Hits Canada: 70% Cheaper [2026]
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Fusion42 · 27 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Moonshot AI released the full open weights of its Kimi K3 model (2.8 trillion parameters) on 27 July 2026, 10 days after announcement. At $15 per million tokens output—70% below Anthropic's Claude pricing—it creates cost arbitrage for Canadian teams and applies pressure on cloud AI platform pricing.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Frontier Models, and 34 sources have reported it between 18 Jul 2026 and 7 Aug 2026.
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If you're building on Claude or other frontier models, your unit cost just dropped 70% and your vendor lock-in just weakened. The money moving into AI applications now flows to whoever can run Kimi K3 on-premise or in Canadian clouds without API tax.
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34 sources · first reported 18 Jul 2026 · latest 7 Aug 2026
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