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Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 22, 2026Published at 1:47 AM EDT · New York

Moonshot's Kimi K3 Lands as the Largest Open-Weight Model, With Weights Due July 27

The 2.8-trillion-parameter model ranks third on GDPval-AA v2 behind Claude Fable 5 Max and GPT-5.6 Sol Max, and first on Arena's Frontend Code evaluation.

Moonshot's Kimi K3 Lands as the Largest Open-Weight Model, With Weights Due July 27

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter model with native vision and a one-million-token context window, released as the largest open-weight model to date, with full weights scheduled for July 27. On GDPval-AA v2 it scored 1,687,…

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Open-Weight Models Close the Gap With Closed Frontier Labs

Over the next 3-9 months, open-weight releases with downloadable weights, long context, and strong agentic/coding performance increasingly match closed frontier models on practical work, eroding the closed-lab moat.