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 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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