Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source language model featuring a 1-million-token context window, via Telnyx Inference API. The model is described as the world's first open-source offering at this scale.
Moonshot AI's Kimi-K3 model on HuggingFace faces criticism from developers who discovered its license does not qualify as genuinely open-source. Users expressed disappointment at the discrepancy.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight multimodal agent model with 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1-million-token context window. The model, available on HuggingFace, is designed for coding, knowledge-intensive tasks, and advanced reasoning.
A White House official accused China's Moonshot AI of violating US export controls to access Nvidia's GB300 chips in Thailand, which the company used to develop the Kimi K3 model released in July 2026. OpenAI's Greg Brockman acknowledged Kimi K3 is competitive but expressed uncertainty about whether it was derived from GPT models.