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Amazon Bedrock now offers in-country inference in India for Kimi K3, keeping processing within the Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions. This post explains the global and geographic cross-Region inference options and shares example code for reading and understanding Indic-language documents with Kimi K3.

Moonshot AI apologizes for Kimi K3.1 Pro rollout failures and rate-limiting issues affecting subscriber experience.

Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro API with Opus 5.5/GPT-6 Astra parity; weights promised Nov 2026; $2/$10 per million tokens.

from is now available on , along with , a faster version for interactive use.Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot AIAI GatewayKimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed K3.1 Pro is the first model in Moonshot's K3.1 series. It builds on with improvements in coding, 3D modeling, financial analysis, and agentic tasks, and keeps the 1M-token context window and image input.Kimi K3 For coding, K3.1 Pro handles work ranging from small fixes in an existing codebase to building a full project, including long agent runs with many steps. It builds front-end pages and interactive scenes with stronger typography and animation than earlie...

now includes DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, alongside Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3, each accessed through its preferred provider, with more models to come. The DeepSeek model uses the latest weights (1017).Token Pass Token Pass is a $30/month subscription on Pro teams that grants $80 in monthly credit and runs through . Use it with any coding agent such as , , , etc. or build your own with the AI SDK, with Zero Data Retention enabled by default.AI GatewayfxPiClineCommand Code Add DeepSeek V4.1 Flash from the in your team's AI Gateway dashboard, or read the for setup.Token Pass pageToken Pass documentation Read ...

Comparative study: LLM agents (GPT-4.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Kimi K3) vs. humans in binary reverse engineering; agents match expert performance.

Difference-of-means vectors in model representations reveal reward hacking signatures in Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, and Qwen 3.8 Max.

The Alibaba logo is displayed outside its headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. | Image: NurPhoto via Getty Images Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic rivals like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3. Alibaba said it was making the model, Qwen3.8-Max, widely available to users in a blog post published on Monday. The release had been expected after the company previewed the model last month, when it claimed it was "second...

Kimi K3 open-weights model released amid broader industry discussion on open model availability and strategy.

Moonshot releases Kimi K3 weights (2.8T params, 1.56TB) with modified MIT license requiring attribution for products >100M MAU.

People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, July 20th. | Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of the cost. Its performance alone would have been enough to intensify the rivalry between the US and China. But Moonshot's plan to release the model's weights for free - and...

Kimi K3: 2.8T MoE model with 104B active params, 1M context window, Delta Attention, 2.5x scaling efficiency over K2.

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]

"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S. government could sanction Chinese AI companies after White House officials accused Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop Kimi K3.

Import AI newsletter covers open vs closed model gaps, Kimi K3 release, and Demis Hassabis's AI policy proposals.

China's leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America's lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming central to national security, economic power, and geopolitical influence. The opening salvo came from Beijing-based Moonshot AI, one of China's leading AI model developers, which unveiled Kimi K3 on Friday. Moonshot claims its own testing ranks it consistently ab...

Simon Willison comments on Kimi K3's refusal to leak its system prompt, noting the model's polite deflection.

Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B released as largest open-weight model with Opus 4.8-class performance at Sonnet 5 pricing.

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 (2.8T params), claims top performance vs. Claude Opus 4.8 Max and GPT-5.5, promises open-weight release by July 2026.

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.