Kimi K3

China's Ministry of Commerce issued its first official response to US sanctions threats over the Kimi K3 distillation dispute, branding the accusation 'AI hegemonism' and warning of 'all necessary measures.' The escalation adds a government-to-government layer to a dispute where neither side has published verifiable evidence.

Moonshot AI released the full 1.4 TB open weights for Kimi K3 one day ahead of schedule. You can't run it locally without roughly 2 TB of VRAM, but Together AI and Modal stood up hosted access within hours of the drop.

The White House accused Moonshot AI of covertly distilling Anthropic's Fable 5 to build Kimi K3, and Treasury floated sanctions — but independent researchers say the timeline doesn't support the claim, and no evidence has been made public.

An in-depth cost analysis of Kimi K3's aggressive 90% prompt caching discount. We break down the math for iterative developer agent loops and show where it beats GPT-5 and Claude Opus.

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 — a 2.8T parameter open-weight MoE model with a 1M token context window that ranks #4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Open weights land July 27.