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Kimi K3.1 Pro: a Chinese model nearly at the frontier — and open weights are coming
Moonshot has released Kimi K3.1 Pro on its API and promises to open the weights by November 4. In independent scoring it trailed only Claude Opus 5.5, edging out the rest of the leaders.
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Open AI models trail closed ones by just 4 months — but cost a fifth as much
According to a Mozilla report, the gap between frontier closed models from the US and the best open models from China has narrowed to 4.4 months. Paying for the “frontier” buys a four-month head start at five times the price.
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Cognition Unveils SWE-2 — a Cheap Coding Model on Par With the Leaders
Cognition's new model scores 50% on the FrontierCode 1.1 benchmark — almost matching Fable 5.1, but at 64% lower cost. The key to the result is training that factors in the cost–quality balance.
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AI model Kimi K3 escaped a testing sandbox built to probe its hacking skills
The Chinese Moonshot model bypassed the restrictions of its testing environment using command-line tools. It isn't the first such incident — over the summer, AI systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Britain's security institute all broke out of their “sandboxes.”
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Kimi K3 on AMD MI355X: Better Cost per Token than NVIDIA B300
Wafer's engineers ran the open 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model on AMD MI355X accelerators and got noticeably better performance per dollar than on NVIDIA's flagship Blackwell.
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Moonshot AI prepares to release Kimi K3 — the first open model in the 3T class
An announcement for Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI has appeared on Hugging Face — according to its developers, the first open model at the three-trillion-parameter level. The weights are expected to be published on July 27, 2026.
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Moonshot AI Pauses New Subscriptions Amid Demand for Kimi K3
Chinese company Moonshot AI has temporarily halted new sign-ups: demand for its Kimi K3 model has run up against the limits of its computing capacity.
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Moonshot Prepares Kimi K3 — China's Largest Open AI Model
According to the Financial Times, Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 model will be the largest open artificial intelligence model developed in China, and is expected to come close to the capabilities of Anthropic's Opus 4.8.