Chinese AI firm Moonshot unveils powerful model with capabilities close to Anthropic, OpenAI

Chinese AI firm Moonshot has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model that matches or exceeds Anthropic and OpenAI's performance on coding tasks at a fraction of the cost. The release marks an acceleration in China's AI capability and threatens the token-pricing business models of US frontier labs.

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