Moonshot AI Model Releases, Tracked
5 releases across 1 model tracked from July 18, 2026 to July 29, 2026. Updated as new Moonshot AI releases are covered.
- Deep DiveKimi K3China Calls US Sanctions Threat 'AI Hegemonism.' Neither Side Has Shown Its Evidence.
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.
- News BriefKimi K3Kimi K3 Weights Are Now Public — One Day Early, and Despite a Sanctions Cloud
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.
- Deep DiveKimi K3The White House Says Moonshot Stole Anthropic's Model. The Evidence Isn't Public Yet.
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.
- Deep DiveKimi K3The economics of 90% prompt caching: Why Kimi K3 changes the math for AI coding agents
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.
- News BriefKimi K3Kimi K3 just dropped: 2.8 trillion parameters, open weights, and it's not playing catch-up
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.