Kimi K3 Shows Open-Weight Models Are About to Overtake the Frontier
Summary
Kimi K3, an open-weight model, demonstrates that open-weight models are nearing or surpassing proprietary frontier models in performance.
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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Kimi introduces Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open model with native vision and 1M context, built on Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals. It achieves frontier-level performance in coding and reasoning, with full weights to be released by July 2026.