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Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
The latest iteration of Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI’s Kimi model series is expected to perform at par with or even surpass Anthropic’s Opus 4.8, Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources.
Moonshot’s Kimi K2 models have been received well in the open source AI market, ranking high on benchmarks and demonstrating capabilities that aren’t too far behind the latest frontier models.
The company’s upcoming release, called Kimi K3, is said to take this one step further to close the gap with closed-source models from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open-weight AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion, and will be released “in the coming days.”
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Kimi K3 Model Warm-up Video Leaks, Multiple Comparisons Directly Targeting Claude Fable5, Initiating a Challenge
On July 15, Moonshot AI released a teaser video on Bilibili, X platform, and Xiaohongshu, officially building up momentum for the Kimi K3 model, with the new product expected to be launched soon. The number "3" briefly shown at around 4 seconds in the video has been interpreted by the outside world as an explicit hint at Kimi K3.
An anonymous model appears on Arena.ai, comparison tests have been leaked
According to public information, an anonymous model codenamed Kivine has quietly appeared on the Arena.ai evaluation platform, and the industry generally speculates that it is associated with Kimi K3. At the same time, netizens have already shared multiple comparison test videos of Kimi K3 against Claude Fable5, as well as horizontal comparisons with the GPT-5.6 Sol model, showing that Moonshot AI has directly targeted the top-tier models with the strongest coding capabilities.
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