Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 suspends new subscriptions after 48-hour requested visit surge ...

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source LLM that topped global coding benchmarks, suspended new subscriptions after demand overwhelmed compute capacity within 48 hours of release. The move signals Chinese open-source models are now matching or exceeding closed US frontier models in performance whilst competing on cost and accessibility.

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